RAW v JPEG

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What are the advantages and disadvantages of shooting in RAW?

Should I change from shooting in JPEG to RAW?

Can you save a manipulated RAW picture into JPEG?

Thanks in advance for your answers and advise.
 
This is covered in detail elsewhere if you'd care to do a search, but in short:

The advantages are many. Too many to go into here - as I said it's been covered in depth here many, many times.

Yes, you should. Immediately.

You can indeed - in fact you kind of have to as corrections applied when opening a RAW file aren't actually applied to it. You can also save it as a PSD, TIFF or anything else that takes your fancy...
 
check out any relevant disadvantages...size and storage requirements
and really do you need raw in the first place
ie level of photography
 
Same message as I posted in the other similar thread.

Raw is intended to give you full control over "development" of your photos (as in darkroom style development) to get the highest possible quality out of the camera. This is as opposed JPEGs where the "development" is controlled by camera firmware and settings.

Raw also having more bits per pixel which results in better quality processing of your photo - you have more room (more data) to manipulate your photo later should you need to (this includes highlights recovery or any other post processing). This results in better quality of the postprocessing (data-wise of course).

Whether all of these outweight the convenience of the out of the camera JPEGs is up to you - as it was mentioned already there were quite a few threads on RAW vs. JPEG here.

I personally see no disadvantages to RAW especially when shooting RAW+Jpeg mode.
 
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