What exactly are the advantages of shooting RAW+JPG over shooting RAW only. So far the only ones I have seen are:
1) Insurance against Nikons policy of encrypting WB info
2) Faster work flow, though if the first step in my wf is to import the NEF's and convert them to DNG I don't see what this gains me.
Am I missing something?
I shot RAW+JPG for my Tanzania Safari last year. Granted, I still don't have a good workflow set up, but what I did end up doing for myself "that worked" was to split them apart into two directories, and then downloaded just the JPGs into iPhoto on my 12" G4 Powerbook, which I carried with me for a couple of weeks to do the work of culling my 4000+ images down to 500, and then cherry-picking again that 500 down to around 200. Much of this work was composition and subject duplication, so I didn't really need the RAW versions to make this cut.
Because of the storage capacity and horsepower limits of the G4 laptop, this workflow was managable with just the JPGs.
What remains yet to be done is to go back through one more time and cull the 200 down to around 5-10
über-keepers and post-process their RAWs for reproduction of a big wall-hanger image or two. I've already done two and printed them at roughly 20" x 34"; the one came out really nice, so I want to get another copy of it made at some point.
-hh
