Recently started shooting JPEGs with my Fuji and I love it. Playing around with creating my own Fuji film simulations. Started getting tired of editing a 1.5+ years ago. JPEGs have become my savior!
I really enjoyed this video! Questioning or changing something "you were told to do" was a great point you brought out and another video in itself... I like jpeg and raw as I delete the majority of my pics after shooting and very few make it to Lightroom for post. Shooting raw only as you've said is not good as many of us "listen" to those online that say, "it's the only way to go." (for them maybe) Thanks again, it supports my decision for both formats!
I shoot Jpeg + Raw and NEVER (or verrry occasionally) use the Raw files. If you shoot properly, jpegs can be editied fine. If you shoot without putting too much effort, then raw is for you.
My first camera, a Pentax k200d had a RAW button. I pressed it before I took photos that mattered, like a landscape or something else. otherwise mess with the jpeg settings and get things set up the way you like. Or have a few, maybe a softer more neutral portrait and a vivid landscape sorta profile.
Just want to add, lovely lighting on you in this video. As a jpeg shooter you've certainly realized that good light is the key to good results! I usually use faithful fro my profile because I love the majenta touch but otherwise natural contrast curve without highlight rolloff so I can see if I'm clipping more easily.
Lets compare it to fast food. Most pictures today are fast food. And for most social usage a fast generated picture is more than enough if you are able to handle the camera settings. If you want to create the ultimate photo picture book do raw. But if you do 50 thumbnails a week or digital presentation value your time. I totally agree and use most of my time jpeg.
you can do it this way or that way. For me, and what i do, i see very little benefit in jpegs. i go through some editing anyways no matter if i shoot raw or jpeg. and for the disc space argument... and breaking rules: just dont keep the raws then. for a lot of photos i take, i initially take them raw, then edit and export them. after export, quite often i simply delete the raw files alltogether if its a photo thats not super important and i dont need to go back to it, and only keep the exported and edited jpegs.
@@jeffreybuoncristiano i tried, but then i compare my jpegs and raw files and i am losing so much detail and sharpness, that i instantly go back to raw.
@@jeffreybuoncristiano i understand your point now a lot more. you need to be in the right mindspace for that. i am currently in a weird experiment. i really disliked my old camera so i ve sold it. technically i dont have a new camera now either because i am still saving up and i also have not decided on a camera yet. i am using those months now to actually explore shooting film. restored a nice minolta x300, looks almost mint, together with with a rokkor 28mm 2.8 and a 45mm 2 . thats all i am using right now and it is incredibly fun. you dont even think about editing because you cant edit to begin with. and i really dont miss coming home and editing a bunch of flat looking raw files. wich is why i am currently considering fuji exactly for filmsims. it also got me thinking that mirrorless cameras might be a little bit misunderstood in that regard? in dslr era, yes i 100% get it that raw was needed for a lot of things. but with mirrorless now, you can liveview the final result on the screen and viewfinder, wich allows you to finetune and compose the image in a way it doesnt even need heavy raw edits in the first place. something you did not had with dslrs. storage space is a biggie too. with my old dslr. raw files were rather small. it wasnt a huge deal. but with todays cameras and the amount of megapixels we have, raws are getting absolutely crazy huge. i dont wanna buy a new harddrive 2-3 times a year and have a shelf or server in my apartment with an array of harddrives.
I still shoot raw, but delete everything but my edited photos. I keep all that detail cause I know it's a temporary storage bloat. Love your videos man.
Jpegs still go through the same 16bit pipeline as Raw files which is why they're usually indistinguishable. As a professional graphic designer who's also employed graphic artist, never once have any asked for a raw file or even a tiff. My old business partner made $20k on a project using 700kb-2mb jpegs which were less than 2.5mp files 🤷🏾♂️
@@jeffreybuoncristiano Technology today keeps moving really fast so I want to also share this. This is some next level editing 🤯 Auto correct images. Like seriously next level Photoshop Vudu. ruclips.net/video/Dz-QZxK5XX0/видео.html
Last one, Raw files are only as good as the software you've processed them with. If you shoot Nikon and don't use Nikon NX raw software, you will never get Nikon actual color science. That is literally why someone like Jared shooting only raw is more for marketing his channel than practical use. Nikon created D-Lighting which literally eliminated the need for the typical Raw adjustments to dynamic range. Raw has its place in professional workflows. Best jpg setting I use for editing is literally set everything to low from contrast, color, sharpness in camera. I went back to the old Nikon D200 b/c it has a special color mode for post processing in jpeg call Mode II that can only be accessed when using Adobe RGB which is different from it's Mode I (people) and Mode III (Landscape). CCD sensors do magical things to colors that CMOS still to this day can't. Above CCD is Foveon. The Hasselblad, PhaseOne, D700, Alexa 35 are a different breed of CMOS technology.
Great video :) Also, a thing I've noticed when it comes to Jpeg vs RAW, is the huge difference between Jpeg from different cameras. On a Jpeg from my iPhone, the amount of editing I can do, is pretty limited. While on a Jpeg from my Nikon DSLR, I can usually do more than enough editing (at least for my taste), without any color banding, or other negative artifacts.. I DO shoot Jpeg + RAW tho, but most of the time I end up using only the Jpeg, and keep the RAW just in case, until I'm done editing the Jpeg :)
RAW is like shooting negative film. JPEG is like shooting transparency film. I actually NEVER shoot RAW. Not since 2003 when I was a Fuji Pro Products Rep. Capture in the camera and you're DONE.
A few major reasons. 1. The superior lenses. 2. Image quality. 3. Control and physical logistics. 4. Menu and internal options. 5. It’s more fun to use a nicer camera. 6. It’s a challenge to slow down and work it like film to get it right ( phones automate and auto process ) 7. Battery life 8. The amount of video I shoot is more than photos 9. I choose to because I simply enjoy having a tool that is designed to do one thing very well. one doesn’t need to shoot RAW to have the camera be superior to a phone! Those are the biggest reasons. But by far the biggest reason is to question authority on what you HAVE to shoot in, then when you test shooting in jpeg, you realize they were wrong and probably never put it to the test. They’re sheep for just blindly following orders. IMO there is far more pros to jpeg than cons. But not like RAW doesn’t have its place and is better for those, the argument is more so about the mindset not the points.
@@Julian-ei5to With a camera, you get the abilities of it for crazy autofocus, telephoto lenses for wildlife, crazy lowlight, etc. jpegs are basically 95% there ready to go unless you like heavy edits for everything. I like a naturalistic edit with minor changes if any, and the raw isn't totally necessary for that. I keep the RAWs of the nice stuff I might actually want to edit, but I take way too many photos to edit everything. It's like shooting slide film, find or make good light and shoot for the result.
Editing WB on a jpeg is literally as easy as a raw file and literally are the same if you use the eye dropper in LR. If you want even more accuracy, use the Grey eyedropper in Photoshop with an adjustment layer.
@@jeffreybuoncristiano no, I can get exact WB even if it's totally off. I'm a professional graphic designer. Moving a slider is much easier but I edit my raw and jpegs the same way. I've used my method since CS2
@@jeffreybuoncristiano definitely not talking about the LR eyedropper. This is a new technique that wasn't in the old Photoshop, but I'll link the other video to the old method I used for the last 15yrs Automatic color correction ruclips.net/video/Xt39PClmo4U/видео.html
@@jeffreybuoncristiano Here's the old method I used. When I went to college years ago I learned this. Also when I bought my first serious camera, I used Ken Rockwell site a lot. This was also on their somewhere briefly. Not the video but the method some 13-15yrs ago White Balance correction via white, grey and black eye dropper. ruclips.net/video/KIrMZnsH2vk/видео.html
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Recently started shooting JPEGs with my Fuji and I love it. Playing around with creating my own Fuji film simulations. Started getting tired of editing a 1.5+ years ago. JPEGs have become my savior!
That was very deep. I like the underlying message here. Keep questioning and don’t get hung up on rules or boundaries...another great video
You got it. Probably the only person who did lol
Jared Polin started crying watching this video
haha
@@jeffreybuoncristiano i waited 3 years for this comment and it was all worth it
@@83442handle haha...hahah. for some reason it only just showed me this comment today!
I agree. I shot slide film for 30 years and when I went digital I shot jpeg. I get it right in the camera.
niice!!!
I really enjoyed this video! Questioning or changing something "you were told to do" was a great point you brought out and another video in itself... I like jpeg and raw as I delete the majority of my pics after shooting and very few make it to Lightroom for post. Shooting raw only as you've said is not good as many of us "listen" to those online that say, "it's the only way to go." (for them maybe) Thanks again, it supports my decision for both formats!
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I shoot Jpeg + Raw and NEVER (or verrry occasionally) use the Raw files. If you shoot properly, jpegs can be editied fine. If you shoot without putting too much effort, then raw is for you.
Mhmm. Exactly. They didn’t have raw back in the day. And jpeg is just fine
Love the quality you're producing with the new camera! Video looks great!
Thanks Mike! The thing is a beast!
Your vids are amazing, great shots!
My first camera, a Pentax k200d had a RAW button. I pressed it before I took photos that mattered, like a landscape or something else. otherwise mess with the jpeg settings and get things set up the way you like. Or have a few, maybe a softer more neutral portrait and a vivid landscape sorta profile.
hell yeah. yeah that's the way!
Just want to add, lovely lighting on you in this video. As a jpeg shooter you've certainly realized that good light is the key to good results!
I usually use faithful fro my profile because I love the majenta touch but otherwise natural contrast curve without highlight rolloff so I can see if I'm clipping more easily.
I’m trying out shooting in JPEG. If most of my photos are good then I’m staying with JPEG. Great video.
how'd this work out for you!?
Love this video. Very informative and positive. 👊👍
I also absolutely love where you are located. What at beautiful inspiring place.
Lets compare it to fast food. Most pictures today are fast food. And for most social usage a fast generated picture is more than enough if you are able to handle the camera settings. If you want to create the ultimate photo picture book do raw. But if you do 50 thumbnails a week or digital presentation value your time. I totally agree and use most of my time jpeg.
amen!
thank you, i will consider in the future.
Very good video, thank you 🙏
Great stuff, man ......
Thank you!
you can do it this way or that way. For me, and what i do, i see very little benefit in jpegs. i go through some editing anyways no matter if i shoot raw or jpeg. and for the disc space argument... and breaking rules: just dont keep the raws then. for a lot of photos i take, i initially take them raw, then edit and export them. after export, quite often i simply delete the raw files alltogether if its a photo thats not super important and i dont need to go back to it, and only keep the exported and edited jpegs.
🤷♂ don't knock it til you try it for a while!
@@jeffreybuoncristiano i tried, but then i compare my jpegs and raw files and i am losing so much detail and sharpness, that i instantly go back to raw.
@@MaybeTiberius that shouldn't change the sharpness at all. how are you seeing this?
@@MaybeTiberius i think you should just up the sharpness on the jpeg settings and change those. maybe it's that?
@@jeffreybuoncristiano i understand your point now a lot more. you need to be in the right mindspace for that. i am currently in a weird experiment. i really disliked my old camera so i ve sold it. technically i dont have a new camera now either because i am still saving up and i also have not decided on a camera yet.
i am using those months now to actually explore shooting film. restored a nice minolta x300, looks almost mint, together with with a rokkor 28mm 2.8 and a 45mm 2 . thats all i am using right now and it is incredibly fun. you dont even think about editing because you cant edit to begin with. and i really dont miss coming home and editing a bunch of flat looking raw files.
wich is why i am currently considering fuji exactly for filmsims. it also got me thinking that mirrorless cameras might be a little bit misunderstood in that regard? in dslr era, yes i 100% get it that raw was needed for a lot of things. but with mirrorless now, you can liveview the final result on the screen and viewfinder, wich allows you to finetune and compose the image in a way it doesnt even need heavy raw edits in the first place. something you did not had with dslrs.
storage space is a biggie too. with my old dslr. raw files were rather small. it wasnt a huge deal. but with todays cameras and the amount of megapixels we have, raws are getting absolutely crazy huge. i dont wanna buy a new harddrive 2-3 times a year and have a shelf or server in my apartment with an array of harddrives.
I still shoot raw, but delete everything but my edited photos. I keep all that detail cause I know it's a temporary storage bloat. Love your videos man.
Yep that’s one really great way to do it!
Jpegs still go through the same 16bit pipeline as Raw files which is why they're usually indistinguishable.
As a professional graphic designer who's also employed graphic artist, never once have any asked for a raw file or even a tiff.
My old business partner made $20k on a project using 700kb-2mb jpegs which were less than 2.5mp files 🤷🏾♂️
amen!!!
@@jeffreybuoncristiano Technology today keeps moving really fast so I want to also share this. This is some next level editing 🤯
Auto correct images. Like seriously next level Photoshop Vudu.
ruclips.net/video/Dz-QZxK5XX0/видео.html
@@jeffreybuoncristiano I used to create my own actions in PS but this right here beyond anything I've seen in 20yrs of graphic design.
Thanks for the sub-story. A great way to share and keep from being edited...a JPEG message instead of a RAW message :)
Hahah yep
It makes sense.....
Last one, Raw files are only as good as the software you've processed them with. If you shoot Nikon and don't use Nikon NX raw software, you will never get Nikon actual color science.
That is literally why someone like Jared shooting only raw is more for marketing his channel than practical use.
Nikon created D-Lighting which literally eliminated the need for the typical Raw adjustments to dynamic range. Raw has its place in professional workflows.
Best jpg setting I use for editing is literally set everything to low from contrast, color, sharpness in camera. I went back to the old Nikon D200 b/c it has a special color mode for post processing in jpeg call Mode II that can only be accessed when using Adobe RGB which is different from it's Mode I (people) and Mode III (Landscape).
CCD sensors do magical things to colors that CMOS still to this day can't. Above CCD is Foveon. The Hasselblad, PhaseOne, D700, Alexa 35 are a different breed of CMOS technology.
Great video :) Also, a thing I've noticed when it comes to Jpeg vs RAW, is the huge difference between Jpeg from different cameras. On a Jpeg from my iPhone, the amount of editing I can do, is pretty limited. While on a Jpeg from my Nikon DSLR, I can usually do more than enough editing (at least for my taste), without any color banding, or other negative artifacts.. I DO shoot Jpeg + RAW tho, but most of the time I end up using only the Jpeg, and keep the RAW just in case, until I'm done editing the Jpeg :)
that's a good method if you actually remember to delete the raw. and yeah you're right, different from different cameras!
Thanks. I’m vindicated. :)
RAW is like shooting negative film. JPEG is like shooting transparency film. I actually NEVER shoot RAW. Not since 2003 when I was a Fuji Pro Products Rep. Capture in the camera and you're DONE.
agreed.
I get your point, but tgen why even use your camera and not your phone?
A few major reasons. 1. The superior lenses. 2. Image quality. 3. Control and physical logistics. 4. Menu and internal options. 5. It’s more fun to use a nicer camera. 6. It’s a challenge to slow down and work it like film to get it right ( phones automate and auto process ) 7. Battery life 8. The amount of video I shoot is more than photos 9. I choose to because I simply enjoy having a tool that is designed to do one thing very well. one doesn’t need to shoot RAW to have the camera be superior to a phone! Those are the biggest reasons. But by far the biggest reason is to question authority on what you HAVE to shoot in, then when you test shooting in jpeg, you realize they were wrong and probably never put it to the test. They’re sheep for just blindly following orders. IMO there is far more pros to jpeg than cons. But not like RAW doesn’t have its place and is better for those, the argument is more so about the mindset not the points.
@@jeffreybuoncristiano i get it, but when the images arent important, that wouldnt matter
@@Julian-ei5to With a camera, you get the abilities of it for crazy autofocus, telephoto lenses for wildlife, crazy lowlight, etc. jpegs are basically 95% there ready to go unless you like heavy edits for everything. I like a naturalistic edit with minor changes if any, and the raw isn't totally necessary for that. I keep the RAWs of the nice stuff I might actually want to edit, but I take way too many photos to edit everything. It's like shooting slide film, find or make good light and shoot for the result.
Editing WB on a jpeg is literally as easy as a raw file and literally are the same if you use the eye dropper in LR. If you want even more accuracy, use the Grey eyedropper in Photoshop with an adjustment layer.
yeah you can get pretty good results if you're close, if you weren't it's touch with jpeg
@@jeffreybuoncristiano no, I can get exact WB even if it's totally off. I'm a professional graphic designer. Moving a slider is much easier but I edit my raw and jpegs the same way. I've used my method since CS2
@@jeffreybuoncristiano definitely not talking about the LR eyedropper.
This is a new technique that wasn't in the old Photoshop, but I'll link the other video to the old method I used for the last 15yrs
Automatic color correction
ruclips.net/video/Xt39PClmo4U/видео.html
@@jeffreybuoncristiano Here's the old method I used. When I went to college years ago I learned this. Also when I bought my first serious camera, I used Ken Rockwell site a lot. This was also on their somewhere briefly. Not the video but the method some 13-15yrs ago
White Balance correction via white, grey and black eye dropper.
ruclips.net/video/KIrMZnsH2vk/видео.html
I've for the A7r3, and i shoot JPEG, thé algorythm and technology progress are ok and eficient in 2021!
Finally someone who agrees! Glad to hear you’re not brainwashed! 👍🏻
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