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Originally Posted by mikesouth
Only newspapers
heres why
your lets say your nikon shoots 12 bits per color thats 2^36th
thats 4096 levels of each color...red green and blue
jpg immediatly degrades it to 8 bits per color..thats 2^24th BIG DIFFERENCE
thats 256 levels of each color. and thats before it compresses it
Only magazines that print on pulp paper will accept jpgs for anything larger that a very small photo and many wont accept that.
I shoot for print all the time...yes I make JPGs but only as proofs to determine which shots will actually go to the editor in RAW format
Anyone who has ever had color balance problems in jpg that they had to correct knows the limitations with a raw imagine there are no limitations.
Real photographers only shoot raw...sorry but dats the way it is...dont believe me...ask one.
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To say someone who shoots raw is more of a real photog than a guy who won a pulitzer shooting jpeg's is silly. I read 5 different photo mags a month and some use jpeg's for ease and portability. Not every "real" photog shoots glamour or product. I took a class and they showed a jpeg print that was blown up to poster size and it was beautiful. Actually to get a really good print out of jpeg you have to be a dead on photog.