Originally posted by Rondec I think the main thing has to do with when you started doing digital photography. My first digital SLR was a K-100 and the jpegs weren't that good from it. I very quickly changed to raw. The K-100 screwed up the white balance all of the time and got really soft over iso 800 if you were shooting jpeg. In addition, the post processing software has come a long way since then and back then it was very hard to fix screwed up jpegs.
For photos of my family jpegs would be more than fine, but I don't remember to switch back and forth and there is no particular downside to shooting raw (the time commitment for me mostly has to do with figuring out which images to keep, not the actual editing process).
I think Jpgs have come a long way. It's nice to have RAWs and I don't think I could really recommend to shoot purely Jpgs but sometimes that additional RAW dynamic range and interpretation is overkill and not needed. If the camera is capable of producing something pleasing in camera and the file can handle a 10 second retouch (and not crumble from slider manipulation), then the benefit is getting something in the field that more resembles what your minds eye has in mind (which provides realtime feedback for better exposure choices in my experience), and then you skip a certain amount in post production to time wasting in choosing a rendered look and further slider adjustments... then I can see its merits. It's not a replacement for RAW (I hate this 'Jpg vs RAW' thing), it's just another option for the user to take as part of their photography experience and workflow.
So I can understand how at one time Jpgs maybe were not that great and why RAW was 99% the preferred route but it's 2022 now and Jpgs are pretty damn great on most systems. I find it funny how my 2010 645D has dedicated buttons for basically toggling the SD card slots to recording Jpgs or RAWs (and I guess to a similar extent the K-1 has a 'RAW' button intended to toggle the user between recording Jpg or RAW). But then again I am looking at a lot of things with 'modern fresh' eyes. What were the RAW editors available back in 2010 like? Were people getting better results natively from their 645D's from Jpgs than trying to work with the RAWs etc etc.
Originally posted by biz-engineer For me Kevin Mullins is mostly a Fuji ambassador who makes a living out of promoting Fuji cameras. When I watched Kevin Mullins first steps into photography, I already had 20 years of photography practice behind me. His video that made me smile the most was when he was provided a GFX50S by Fuji and trying to find reason why he would need such camera. Anyway, most photography money is on content marketing these days, there is very little money going into photographic work itself. Most self named professional photographers nowadays are actually vloggers who create video content for indirectly promoting something. There is so little money into creating and selling photographs that even the true professional photographers turned to advertising and workshops to earn enough money to pay their bills. Fuji have a rather substantial sponsorship program, so much so that some photographers are strongly depends on Fuji to survive, take Damien Lovegrove, he is certainly a talent portrait lighting photographer, but his business mostly took off and became known when he affiliated with Fuji. So when Kevin Mullins says he shoots weddings professionally with Fuji Jpeg, he is essentially selling Fuji to the average Fuji hobbyist.
Dunning Kruger effect affects a lot of young people, who begin in a new discipline, learn a little bit something, quickly feel good about it, quickly gain some confidence, like bird chicks flapping their wings for the frst time realizing they fly a few yards without crashing into the ground, feel good about it, and all of a sudden intent to teach everyone else about their discovery, not realizing that old birds flew thousands of miles in various weather conditions without feeling the need to broadcast.
Sounds like you have a bit of a poor attitude towards Kevin. Fuji found him and I believe they had a mutual relationship that benefitted both of them (but he has now left the ambassador program). I don't believe Kevin to be a liar and peddling Fuji, if he says he shoots RAW+Jpg, often retouches the Jpgs for clients (and its enough) and occasionally throughout a wedding day will use Auto... then I believe him. If the Fuji system can deliver well under those conditions then that's credit to Fuji and Kevin.
The GFX he has I believe he sold, because he simply felt the system was overkill and too slow for his line of work, I think he does have credibility, transparency and has been quite critical of Fuji.
But he is not the only one to adopt this mentality of shooting Jpg and being ballsy enough to use Auto on paid work, there are many others (myself included)... he's possibly just a very good noteworthy one and his work is out there for everyone to see and critique.
Kevin will make all the money he needs from weddings and events (the last 2-3yrs have been tough due to Covid of course which has seen a few togs diversify). He is an international wedding tog, not many can say that. If he runs workshops, attends Fuji conventions and does speeches etc, then it won't be that well paid (in comparison to his wedding rate of pay), he'll be doing it because he likes to do it and it benefits his overall business image.
Now that he is an ex X Brand Ambassador he has said he will continue to use Fuji and has no ill will with them. I just think it's a ridiculous notion that Kevin would need Fuji to survive. When he started out (before Fuji noticed him) he did 1 wedding on his first calendar year, the second year he did 70... SEVENTY! Now you do the math.... he has since done over 600 weddings I think. He most certainly does not need Fuji nor never did. He has stated numerous times he gets no salary with Fuji, only perks such as testing things before they are released, giving feedback and suggestions to the designers, discounts on products (and this is similar to every other brand). To be a brand ambassador usually means you WORK HARDER (doing YT reviews and such is a huge time commitment for very little gain!), not things get easier, but it is a bit like winning a photography comp or award, you get to advertise this status on your sites etc and that can elevate you in the public eye.
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Originally posted by gatorguy Well in this case the video owner labeled himself and no one else. He was willing to own the tag, and accept he was wrong.
Sometimes I think the Dunning-Kruger is everywhere, like people posting
in this thread and not even taking the time to watch the damn video
Like it's more important to have their say about something/anything (be heard!) and with that bring their own assumptions to the actual topic matter which they won't take 10mins to investigate properly... good lord..