Capturing JPG and RAW, are both really necessary?

[Greg]

Out of habit I have always recorder Raw and JPG files on cameras capable of it. It was convenient to have the JPG's ready straight out the camera. With the R5 the combined files size is almost 45 Mb, about 10 is for the JPG.

It is so easy to convert RAW to JPG with software I am wondering if there is any point in recording JPG. It could help with capture speed and possible heat, and I save space on the media.

What do you do, capture both, one or the other?

 

[JayAy]

Just raw here

 

[dmiller68]

I used to do both like you. However, about a year ago I just started capturing RAW only since I was never using the JPG.

 

[Copterdoc]

Both until recently. In the old days the software was the roadblock and it was faster to cull JPEGS. Not a problem any longer.

 

[MaraLee]

Out of habit I have always recorder Raw and JPG files on cameras capable of it. It was convenient to have the JPG's ready straight out the camera. With the R5 the combined files size is almost 45 Mb, about 10 is for the JPG.

It is so easy to convert RAW to JPG with software I am wondering if there is any point in recording JPG. It could help with capture speed and possible heat, and I save space on the media.

What do you do, capture both, one or the other?

I still have to do capture RAW + JPG small because Apple and Canon won't communicate and allow thumbnail previews of .CR3 files. Consequently, I have to use the jpgs to know which image is which until I'm done processing, then I delete the original jpgs when I transfer files from my hard disk to my external.

 

[Greg]

This might help

Use a RAW file as the original in Photos on Mac

In Photos on your Mac, use the RAW version of a file (rather than the JPEG version) as the original.

support.apple.com

 

[MaraLee]

This might help

Use a RAW file as the original in Photos on Mac

In Photos on your Mac, use the RAW version of a file (rather than the JPEG version) as the original.

support.apple.com

Thanks, Greg. Like so much of Apple's support, it works for a lot of people, but not for all. This doesn't apply for the Canon R5 and R6 files. When you get there, the option to use the RAW files is grayed out. You can see the photos in the native Photos app, just not in the folders like the screen shot above, which is where I need to see them for the original culling. Eventually Canon will send Apple whatever they need to decrypt the thumbnails so that we can see them, but by then we'll probably be on to another operating system. LOL

 

[Greg]

How about getting a windows 10 computer for photography? I recently bought a used i9 16Gb RAM 500Gb SSD 18 inch for a tad under £400

 

[MaraLee]

How about getting a windows 10 computer for photography? I recently bought a used i9 16Gb RAM 500Gb SSD 18 inch for a tad under £400

Thanks, but you couldn't pay me enough to go back to Windows. We've got three of them in the house I won't touch as it is. I just bought this M1 16gb SSD MBP two months ago JUST for my photography, I can deal with a few jpg thumbnails for now. I've got another older MBP, a 21" iMac and a 27" iMac. I've got all the 'puter power I need.