Originally posted by Flickeroo I had to read your response a few times before I understood it.
It makes sense! Thanks!
I unfortunately (and stupidly) have a tendency to shoot in JPEG only instead of RAW (or both) when I walk around with my camera. Then I go out to seriously take properly composed (with my limited abilities) shots and forget my to change my settings.
I started out shooing jpeg, moved to jpeg with RAW, then arrived at 100% RAW for the last year or so.
BUT, having read accounts recently from 2 HDR guys on Pentax Forums who do HDR handholding, i can now see some advantages to jpeg for some applications.
For example:
1. if you are shooting hdr handheld, you want the sequence to be as fast as possible to avoid movement between frames. therefore, jpeg are smaller files and write quicker. therefore these guys are using just jpegs vice the bigger files of RAW
2. Due to the larger files, the K5 can store far fewer RAW than jpegs. after the buffer fills up, the shutter won't respond until writing is complete. I've had this happen several times in live theatre shooting - so jpegs would help to solve that problem.
i'm still a proponent of RAW, but the HDR handholding makes a good case for jpegs and i'll be trying it out.
best wishes,