So I've been a JPG shooter a loooong time - from my first 10D until now. I've got Terabytes of Jpegs. Stacks of DVDs, if you don't get the picture, I have a lot of JPG pics.

Last month 4 gig cards were on sale so I bought 10 - then I got a good deal on a Blu-Ray DVD burner, and then Aperture 2.0 came out.

It used to take FORever to do conversions (last time I tried). The buffers in my cameras couldn't keep up, it took a long time to open the files, and another time wasting step to do RAW conversions. And I was never happy with the conversion anyway.

But now EVERYTHING has changed.

Today there was a cosmic shift - I am now a RAW shooter.

The skin tones are sexy - The sharpness is amazing! Noise, what noise? JPG shooting taught me to nail the exposure, let me just say the files from my MID-DAY engagement shoot are incredible! This is from my trusty D200's. Sadly this couple didn't want to have their pics released to the public - but next weekend I've got a fantastic wedding. Who needs photoshop anymore? Wait and see...

Thats good info to know Eric, thanks.

I'm still relatively new to all this, but I don't understand how anybody can shoot JPEG. I have zero problems with processing RAW, and I've learned to nail my exposures after a few shoots where I've had to pull images from the buttcrack of underexposure. I love the whole raw work flow, but if I had no other reason to shoot RAW, I would do it because I don't have time to fiddle with white balance while I'm shooting, and auto white balance sucks.