[ruchai]

Bees starting their new colony in our garden, flocking together. Taken with D50, Nikkor 80-400VR in RAW+JPEG.

I think the differences are obvious. If you do not care much about details then use jpeg. If you want to get all out from the pictures use raw. Every time you saved or make corection in jpeg you lost some details. Digital cameras adjust values for average people. If you are not taking birthday party pictures then they did not programed for you. Taking pictures of birds or insects it is far better to have the camera leave all the adjustments to the photographers.

I only started using raw a few months ago. People in the net told me like I am telling you now. I made a try and like it. It is not difficult, the only draw back is it take more time to do and more memory to store the bigger files.

The first one is RAW (222.5KB), the one on the right is JPEG (196.8KB).