RAW And JPEG - What Do They Mean? Which Is Better?

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RAW And JPEG - What Do They Mean? Which Is Better? It Depends But Mainly Yes! Hi and welcome to Episode 91 of the Photography Explained podcast.

I’m your host Rick, and in each episode I will explain one photographic thing to you in plain English in less than 10 minutes (ish) without the irrelevant details. What I tell you is based on my lifetime of photographic experience. And not Google.

Here is the answery bit.

RAW and JPEG are picture taking formats. When taking photographs using RAW no processing is applied to an image other than creating the image itself. When taking photos using the JPEG format the RAW data is processed in camera at the time of image capture. JPEG files look better out of camera, but RAW files record more tonal and colour data.

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