jpg or raw

ask yourself this question when trying to decide whether to shoot jpg or raw: are these crap photos? or are they important?

if they're important shoot raw. if they're not shoot jpg.

I know, all of your pretty pictures are important. Well, out of the thousands and thousands of photographs that sit on my HardDrives and pages & pages of ClearFile stacked boxes upon boxes, there are only a handful that truly define important in my archive.

Raw requires post-processing that offers you more control over than a typical jpg.

99.9% of the people I show a print made from a "RAW" file vs a JPG cannot tell a difference.

You be the judge. Do you like to work on the computer and are a control freak like A.Adams? Shoot RAW. If not shoot JPG

RAW= More post-processing, more storage space, more time, greater control.
JPG= Faster processing, less storage space, less time, so-so control.