Cameras, including phones, shoot JPEGs by default, but this compressed format saves a fraction of the data your camera’s sensor is capable of recording. The alternative is to shoot in RAW, a filetype ...

All DSLRs, and even many point-and-shoots nowadays, can shoot in RAW format, meaning you can save your images as a completely unprocessed file that offers the potential for a higher-quality photo. The ...

Your digital SLR or high-end compact camera gives you the option of saving your photos as Raw files or as JPEGs. Which should you pick? It’s an old question, but it isn’t as easy to answer as you ...

For most of my decade-long career as a professional photographer, I’ve followed the golden rule: always shoot RAW. Like many of us, I was taught that RAW files were the only serious option, offering ...

Last week we published 36 sample images taken with the new Olympus E-P3 compact system camera in Large SuperFine JPEG+RAW format. So far neither Olympus nor any of the major third-party software ...

The Digital Photography School weblog has a great post examining the pros and cons of shooting your digital photos in JPEG versus RAW format. Whether you're a professional or amateur photographer, ...

Google allows for full-sized photo backups — including the newly launched functionality from desktop — on its social network, something it says results in a lot of Google+ users storing RAW photo ...

The crops below show that due to different interpretations of the raw image data, the visual appearance of noise is quite different in the two images. The out-of-camera JPEG has a mostly monochromatic ...