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What can you do with RAW that you can't do with JPEG?

Shooting RAW take up so much space on your digital camera. And for most place--online and offline--JPEG is the de facto standard. So why shoot RAW? Why not just shoot JPEG?

One reason, JPEG is a lossy format, RAW is a lossless format. This topic is covered in our "Shoot JPEG or TIFF?" article and our "Shoot in RAW, Always!" article. So I won't go into details about it in this article.

In this article, I want to show you the power of RAW in real-life examples, rather than abstract theories. This way, you get a real taste of why you'd want to shoot RAW all the time--or, at least, both RAW and JPEG at the same time.

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