When I speak to camera clubs, photo conferences, workshops, or my two online photo clubs, I am always asked why I shoot in jpeg mode. The answer is pretty long so I will answer over the next few days.
In 2004 I bought my first digital DSLR camera body which was a Fuji S2. It was recommended to me by a good friend who is a commercial photographer.
That camera was $2000 which I thought was crazy, but my friend explained that I would be spending a lot of money now but would save a lot of money by never again having to buy film or pay for processing of the film, so that sounded good. Over time I would be saving a lot of money.
The camera store salesman was ringing up my purchase and said I will also need to buy a compact flash card. I had no idea what he was talking about so he explains that the compact flash card would record the images I would be shooting and then I could download the images off the card into my computer.
Okay, give me one of those. I was shocked when I found out it was $240. I was a little upset because I was already spending $2000 and now, I have to come up with another $240.
That compact flash card was only one gig. Which you all know is nothing for storing your images. But I wasn't going to buy more cards.
I only had the $2000 in cash, so had to pull out my credit card.
I had lenses to use with the new camera so didn't need lenses.
When I got home and started learning about my new camera and also about this compact flash card. With a one gig card as I recall I could only record about 35 RAW files, and about 175 jpegs.
I bought this camera for a trip with my photo friend to Yosemite.
Now we can't drive into Yosemite each day and only shoot 35 RAW files and call it a day. With the Jpegs I could at least shoot 175 images. My friend brought a laptop that we could download each day's image into.
So that was the start of me shooting jpegs because I was limited on storage of the images.
Come back tomorrow to read more reasons I was shooting jpegs.