Why RAW is better
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- Опубліковано 30 тра 2024
- RAW vs JPEG which is better? If you ever wondered whether you should shoot RAW or rather JPG, this video will answer that question very detailed. Which is better for which shooting scenario. Does one have better sharpness than the other? Wolf Amri will answer all your questions!
Content:
0:00 intro
0:14 adjust youtube playback speed
1:06 raw vs jpg file sizes
3:11 what is RAW?
4:51 what is JPG?
6:51 is RAW sharper than JPG?
7:17 Bit depth in photography
9:56 Editing is the strength of RAW file
10:24 why white balance in post is easier with a RAW file
12:14 is there still a difference between RAW and jpg if you get it right in camera?
13:04 camera settings that help you improve the JPG by increasing the dynamic range
15:43 editing a jpg file
16:11 banding and posterisation in the JPG file
17:48 recovering overexposed areas RAW vs JPEG
19:18 Shoot JPG when you need a high frame rate
20:18 summary of the advantages of RAW
21:50 summary of the disadvantages of RAW
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Wow there are a lot of great raw vs jpeg comparisons on UA-cam but this is undoubtedly the most informative one. Thank you!
And this is undoubtedly the best feedback one could ask for 😉. Thanks so much 🙏🙏🙏
Intelligent, accurate, humorous and so easy to understand! Thank you, Wolf,
Thanks so much for your continued support, Bob 🙏🙏
Absolutely need a comparison of different RAW-interpreting tools! 🙂
Noted, Paul 😉
I would very much like to see something like this hope Wolf has the time for it ;)
Thanks, Raudel 👍
@@wolfamri I'm just getting started and currently using Darktable. So would very much appreciate your perspective how it measures up to the bigwigs :D
@@stgodless I would love to see a comparison on that too. I've been using Darktable for a few years, and I get good results from it. Fewer bells and whistles than Lightroom, but I would consider it a reliable basic app for the purpose. And for the price (free) you'd be hard-pressed to find better.
Photography felt like a dead art to me since the explosion of social media and mobile shooting. Wolf brought it back to life for me. Lesssgo! 💪 💪
awwww, thank you!!!
You remind me of my old History teacher, you keep me focust by the way you bring it, simple and with humor, thank you very much and please keep up bringing those videos
Thank you, Peter. Much appreciated. I wished my history teacher was the same 😆. I only found interest in history once I left school 😬. I never knew that education in general can be so entertaining.
This is without question the best explanation of the advantages and disadvantages of RAW and jpg I've ever seen.
Thanks so much! That means a lot!
Lololol I've seen a half a dozen channels where the suck up follower says the same thing.
U made beginners to understand photography in a very simple manner thanks for that ❤️❤️
Thanks for your feedback 🤗🙏
Great point made about RAW being future-proof, but as for me personally, I realized that life is too short to edit every single image I take including photos from the past, I better use the time to take more photos or live more moments worth photographing. Of course, I'm not a professional photographer and photos are just for memories. Thank you, great video!
Thank you for your feedback! No doubt, taking pictures is at least as awesome as editing ;).
Hey, Wolf! I'd like to thank you for this amazing hidden gem of a channel you have. Your content really deserves millions of subscribers, it's genuinely amazing. Congrats for it!!! Also, I'm interested as well into the editing software comparisons
Thank you so much 🤗🤗🤗
you really make this concepts easy to understand, keep up the good work!!
Thanks, Mihai 🙏🙏
*Wunderbar, Herr Amri!* Vielen Dank! Amazing explanation. And I mean not only the information itself, but phrasing and reasoning! I really enjoyed it! 👍
Thanks again, Paul! Much appreciated 🙏🙏🙏 Danke schön 😉
Very underated youtube channel.. I learn much more in this channel than the others..
Thanks so much, Jazin 🙏🙏
Your videos are absolutely amazing Mr. Wolf.
Thanks!
Thank youuuuu 🙏🙏🙏
I just wanted to share some love and appreciation for you and the work you do mate! Just when I thought I knew everything about camera technology, your videos never fail to humble me 😅
Awww, thanks so much, Zain. Great to hear that 🙏🙏
this channel is nuts. crazy good explanations. thank you!
Thank you so much for such a great feedback 🤗🤗
Fantastic explainer on Raw vs JPEG. Very well done as are your other videos. Glad I found your channel last year. Look forward to more content this year! Keep up the great work. thanks.
Thank you very much 🙏🙏🙏
You definitely should be nominated for and finally win an OSCAR in edutainment films for a bunch of aspects: Extremely informative, easy to understand even for beginners, explanations supported by depictions and notations that burn unforgetably into the brain, spiced with a lot of subtle humour, and much more...
Thank you Wolf for all your efforts that make the world of photography in many aspects a better one!
Finally every single picture is a window to the soul of its creator: The motif, composition, choice of parameters and editing makes the photographer's points of interests and moods visible. And with your help you're enabling the beginners as well as the advanced to make these windows as precise as possible.
And by the way (as an advanced beginner) I'm highly interested in learning about the comparison Lightroom vs. Capture One, as I'm owning a Lightroom subscription and due to some references of other professional photographers towards Capture One I'm thinking about subscribing this programm as well IF it's adding important features to somebody like me who is eager to improve editing skills.
What an amazing feedback, Inge! I can’t tell you how much I appreciate the time you spent on writing that piece of literature 😉. 🙏🙏🙏
Call yourself, professor wolf....
Ur explanation is so precise and pleasant as photography.
Thank you, Dr. 😉
Wolf I have learned much more in your channel that all the other photography UA-cam videos in other channels combines, you are an amazing instructor.
Thanks sooooo much, Juan 🤗🙏🤗
Just what i was looking for. Thanks Wolf. Following your channel. Love it.
Thanks, Paul! I really appreciate that 😉🙏
I don’t usually comment on UA-cam videos but this video is absolutely crazy, props to you for doing all that research. Thank you and great video
Thank you! That means a lot from someone who usually doesn't comment 🙏
Wow! Thanks a lot for sharing your knowledge. Also your style is very energetic and entertaining but in a very pleasant way (not like those over-reacted videos for teenagers).
This channel deserves like and subscription!
Wow, thank you! Much appreciated. Don't watch my photography course then, because it is not energetic at all 🤣🤣 - but I'm working on a new version 😉
The video I’ve been waiting for!!!
Thanks, Yanni. Sorry for keeping you waiting 🤣. I hope it can live up to the expectation 😉.
Same! :)
The best explanations for photography are in this channel. Thanks for your hard work.
Thank you so much 🤗🤗
Thank you for this, Wolf Amri.
Thanks for watching 😉🙏
This was excellent. Thank you. Probably the best overview I've seen of the pros and cons of using RAW.
Thank you so much 🙏🤗
This is the ultimate Guide! never saw any video that went into such great depths while keeping content interactive.. Now I realize why there is banding in my JPEG photo's while editing. Now on RAW is my go to camera setting. Glad I landed in this channel. Mr. Wolf is a great teacher.
Thanks so much for your feedback, Akash 🙏🤗
WAW! SUPERB VIDEO! thank you! Very much appreciated your efforts.
Thanks, Luis! Much appreciated 🙏🙏🙏
I'm astonished at the lack of views and likes you receive with alllllll your tutorials being so detailed yet succinct and on point.
Thank you so much my friend. I’m OK with the likes, but the views are a sad story 😉.
Fantastic video, thorough, eloquent and succinct. Thank you so much!
Thanks a lot, Georgia 🙏🙏
@@wolfamri So is this what you do?
Shoot raw photos, then convert them to jpeg, and then edit them thru photoshop/lightroom?
You're such a great teacher, especially for a newbie given photography is really confusing. instant subscribe
Thanks so much, Xiao. Great to hear the videos help people understand!
Thank-you for this excellent presentation! Entertaining and educational: a great combination.
Great to hear that, Kevin. Personally I always find myself boring in the videos 🤣 - so I really appreciate that feedback!
Thanks! Just found your channel and I like what I see. Keep it up!
Thanks, Paul! Much appreciated! I’ll try to get even better in the future 🙏.
Thanks for sharing!!!!!!!! Some profound stuff there!!! And YES, a video on backing up woould be highly appreciated!!! Jordan
Thanks, Jordan! Much appreciated!!!
Another great and well explained video! Cheers
Thank you 🙏🤗🙏
Thank you very much for this. Very comprehensive. very well done.
Thanks for watching and for your feedback 🙏🙏🙏
This video was insanely informative!
That's so great to hear. Thank you for your feedback 🤗🙏
Hi, I only stumbled across your channel yesterday and Im really enjoying and gaining knowledge from what your saying,and more importantly how your saying and explaining things. Im a keen”snapper” photographer, But I’ve never really understood many of the details of how setting work.
Keep up the great videos and explanations :)
Thanks so much, Neil! I really appreciate your feedback 🙏
Great explanation of both. eye-opening
Thank you, Konstantnos 🙏
Fantastic course 😊
Thank you 🙏🤗🙏
Brilliantly explained thanks.
Thanks so much 🙏🙏
What a fantastic explanation. Highly informative and expertly presented. I particularly liked the pros and cons of each format. Raw suits me better as I enjoy editing. 4 trillion colours v 16 million. I had no idea.
Thank you, Alan. Great to hear that 🙏🙏
Excellent work!
Thank you 🙏🙏
Brilliant! Once again excellent teaching. So helpful.
Thanks a lot, Rob! Very much appreciated, because that one was so much work 🙏🙏🙏
I can only imagine how long it took you to prepare this post. I hope it will help to build your subscribers. I know this will be a post I will revisit. I have lots to learn and this post has inspired me to not only shoot in raw but to learn how to master post editing software.
That’s great to hear, Rob. Keeps me going 💪😉
Well done. Very informative. Highly recommend.
Thank you, Paul 🙏🙏
Awesome video...I learned quite a bit about Raw after watching this video. Thanks a bunch!!
Thank you so much. That is great to hear!!!
Explained awesomely...... Thanks for the video ❤❤
Thanks for watching and your feedback 🙏🙏
Good video, made it very easy to understand. I am not a pro photographer, just a newbie amateur. I found myself too many times spending a lot of time editing in lightroom, only trying to make the edited raw to look like the jpeg my camera had already downloaded to my phone. So, to me it was just a lot of time wasted to get to what I already had. That is why I stopped shooting RAW. Maybe if some day I have a lot of time in my hands when I retire I will get back to shooting RAW, but for now I just shoot JPEG. If you are a professional photographer then absolutely, you should shoot in RAW.
Thank you so much for your feedback, Luis! I have to agree. If time is limited, then jpg often is the better option. However, did you know that Lightroom and others have an auto function? That might help you too. But in the longrun with AI conquering cameras, things will change in that regard too 🤷♂️
Very informative! Thanks!
Glad it was helpful! Thanks for your feedback, Yury!
Very interesting, informative and comprehensive informations. Thank you.
Thank YOU ;).
Great explanation!
Thank you, Ron!
I expected a chapter on this topic. But you published a book. Great video sir 👌🏼
🤗🤗🤗 love that expression, thanks 🙏🙏
Great explanation, thank you.
Thank you, Clive 🙏🙏
Fantastic, it really explained a lot for me.
Great to hear it was helpful 😉
Great coverage of RAW vs JPEG! My first digital camera was a Kodak 1mp in 1996. Not the greatest pictures, but it sure was fun! Nobody had seen a digital camera, so it was quite a novelty. $1,500 for a one megapixel camera! The one thing in this video that concerned me was when you showed the external hard drive. I put all of my photos on a RAID drive setup. Hard drives are DEFINITELY gonna go bad. With a RAID setup, I won't lose my files if that happens. I just ran across some old photos today in an email I sent several years ago. I would really be heartbroken if I ever lost those originals. File organization is also a very important part of storage. I'm babbling off-track. You know your stuff! I hope you converted some RAW shooters, for those who need more than JPEG offers. I always shoot both. Thanks!
Thanks, Miley. Wow, 1mpix 😮. You are really an early adopter.
Regarding backups. I don’t have a raid because I have so much data. Plus: I want backups from my backups. If My house burned down or the computer and everything got stolen, a raid wouldn’t help me much. And having raids for every of my roughly 20 hard drives would cost me a fortune. That’s why I buy cheap but double. The second version is stored with a relative and updated “regularly”.
My external uploads to Carbonite. Every backed up at far less expense.
May I ask what you pay? For me the cloud wouldn’t really work because I have so much data, and I always like to pay a one time fee (like for harddrives). There are just so many subscription costs these days.
Awesome, your vids are so helpful, Thank you.
Thank YOU, Nigel 🤗🙏
Great comparison 👏
Glad you liked it! Thank you 🙏🙏
That was one fantastic informative video with easy to understand language. Kudos for the same 👍 and thanks a ton🙏.
Thanks so much, for your continued support, Vinayak - means a lot 🙏🙏
Well done!
Thanks 🙏🙏
Thank you Mr Wolf
Thank YOU 😉🙏
Fantastic video, I’m getting into photography myself at the moment and have just purchased my second camera, a Sony A7R II so this is very helpful!
Excellent choice! Thanks for watching and your feedback 🙏
You should get more subs... Your videos are very informative and well explained.. Much appreciate your effort
Thanks so much, Umar. Perhaps one day youtube will find out too 😁
Wolf knocking it out of the park again! Great video. Would love to see the software comparison video. I won't pay monthly fees to Adobe.
Thanks, Eddie 🤗🙏.
Excellent explanation of raw versus JPEG. I shoot both to cover the bases.
Thank you, David! Doesn’t hurt to shoot both 😉
Wow you sure caught my attention ..!
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great video!
Thanks a lot 🙏🙏
Awesome video! Have better understanding of RAW and JPEG.
Thanks, Stephen 🙏🙏
Excellent video
Thank you 🙏🤗🙏
I like your videos, so well explain !! thank you.
Thanks so much, Alain 🙏🙏
Very underated channel
Thanks so much 🙏🙏
Big LOVE from China❤️ You the GOAT
Thank you 🙏. Best wishes to the land far east 😉
Totally awesome
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wowww super useful thank you!
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that was amazing !
Thank you, John 🙏🙏
Hi Mr. Amri! Would you please do a video on "Backup Strategies" (relating to our photos) & a video on your "Complete Work Flow For File Management?" 😊📷
Thank you for your feedback 🙏🙏. I‘ll happily add that to my video-todo-list 👍.
wow... So much information in a single video.
Thank you, Aravind 🙏
Yep i am all up for backup strategies..i am really bad at that(my computer is a maze 🤣🤣🤣😅). Love this video, thanks for sharing ❣️
Thanks, Aparna. You really need to backup your files. In our facebook group we get so many posts with people searching for help after they lost all their stuff.
Any camera that I before I was given my Nikon D 70 only shot Jpeg. I thought that you explanation was great and you gained a new subscriber.
Thanks so much 🙏🙏
I have been taking photos for 40 years but only just moving to RAW. This is a brilliant explanation of the differences both technical and practical. By far the best I have found on UA-cam it even answered my question on should I keep the original RAW files. One question remains though. Thoughts on quality level when saving JPEG versions? I download to a laptop and then to a large screen iPad Pro which I use as a “photo” album.
Again, thanks for the amazing tutorial.
Thanks for your great feedback, Ken. That's a little difficult to answer. I hope I'm not being too complicated:
Saving a jpg will compress the image, so try to find areas that are similar in color and brightness and combine them to one big area. That saves space. The lower quality you save, the more that happens. The only reason why we do that, is not about quality, but more about saving filesize. So if you have enough storage space, save the biggest quality.
Particularly when you reopen and resave the file (maybe after editing), it will again look for areas that it can combine and these big areas will become even bigger. After a while you start seeing these areas very easily - and that's what is called jpg artifacts. You usually want to avoid these.
Rereading that, I hope it is not confusing you more than it helps 🤣
@@wolfamri Thanks! Makes sense to me. You sure put a load of work into this.
Thank youuuu this helped me understand better
Great to hear that. Thanks for your feedback 🙏🙏
Detailed, thanks! I mostly use Jpeg because post processing is a pain. I am not a Pro, I don't need perfection. However, recently I have been using jpg+raw in case a photo needs help. Sometimes with landscape photos they can be improved. My Panasonic camera let's me process raw to jpg in-camera so I can make some basic edits on the go.
I would be interested to know the differences between raw editing apps. Which you recommend, etc... 🙂
Thanks, Michael. I‘d definitely keep those RAW files for the future! And thanks, it seems quite a few people are interested 👍🙏
You got a new subscriber !
🤗🤗🤗 welcome aboard!
The Best Video!!!
Thank you so m🙏🙏
Enjoyed the walk through the differences and advantages of JPEG v RAW. One thing I'd point out is that the RAW v JPG differences in processing aren't necessarily very different. On my Olympus E-M1 Mark II can shoot 60 fps at 20 MP full resolution in JPG or RAW and there is only a second or two time difference in the clearing the buffer with the apprpriate SD card. I think with current computing power it comes down to how the maker decides to employ technology in terms of CPU and memory to optimise various functions. Subscribed!
Thanks, Mark 🙏🙏. I agree, in time that will be a non-issue. Currently, particularly with entry level cameras, there can be quite a difference though. Thanks for subscribing 🤗🙏
So is this what you do?
Shoot raw photos, then convert them to jpeg, and then edit them thru photoshop/lightroom?
@@wolfamri So is this what you do?
Shoot raw photos, then convert them to jpeg, and then edit them thru photoshop/lightroom?
extreamyl informative
Thanks so much 🙏🙏
Excellent objective review of the subject. Fuji has the possibility of in-camera processing of raw files - you don't need a computer and software, although it is less sophisticated than the professional raw converters.
Thanks, Steve. Yes, some cameras have that. The Zeiss ZX1 even has Lightroom installed. I'm not even happy to edit on my phone though - I'm probably too clumsy 😆
Love the video! Would love to see a video about your thoughts about different software. I don't use Lightroom due to the cost so curious what I am missing out when using Darktable. Thanks!
Darktable would definitely be on the list of software to compare. I think it will be very helpful for people. I totally understand regarding the costs for Lightroom. Their system is not "non-pro-friendly"
Oh, and thanks ;)
wish I could've gave this video 10000000 likes :D lovely and informative
Thank youuuu 10000000 likes back 🤗😉
@@wolfamri dear wolf Amri. I noticed that it's been quite a while that you haven't posted any video. Are doing ok ? I hope everything is fine for you and wish to see you back with those amazing educational videos. ♥️📷📷
Thank you so much for asking. I'm a slow producer. But I'm working on several courses at once in the background too 😉.
Sehr gut erklärt ganz gutes Video greetings from Perth Western Australia
Danke, Anton 🙏. The first part doesn't sound too Australian 😁. Greetings back 😉
@@wolfamri i thought you may speak German i am Austrian but 40 years here in Australia
So am I - well again only for the first part of your reply 😆
This video is so underrated.
Thanks, Pete. Means a lot 🙏🙏
thank you，Your videos are very good
Thank you, Yan 🙏🙏
Yes please upload a work flow as well as how to back up content when you get a chance
Thanks! Already working on it 😉
Best thing I've ever seen
Thanks so much, Kevin 🙏🙏
Re getting it right in camera. When I move around and shoot handheld, I prefer RAW since the light can change in an instant, as subjects move between shadow and sunlight. I don't have the time to fiddle with white balance right then and there.
I totally agree. Time on location sometimes is extremely precious. On the computer you have much more time. If you cannot edit today, do it tomorrow or next week. But if you can’t trigger that shutter button on location when the time is right, you lost the opportunity.
Wonderful tutorial. One question; do you recommend exporting into a JPEG after editing or saving it as another high bit format? TIA
Thank you 🙏🙏. I usually save photoshop edits as a tif file (LZW compressed).
I usually only use jpg for sending and viewing. I hope that helps 😉
Grrrrrrreattttt channel I love it !!!!
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@@wolfamri yes boy, sooooo proud of you !!!!!
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I've had a few discussions where the pro-jpeg individual would trot out the "but then you have to process it" chestnut. My usual reply is "I like to think my photos are worth the extra time."
So true. But we enthusiasts have to understand that some only photograph for their memory. If it was an enthusiast though, it’s not the best argument 😂.
@@wolfamri So is this what you do?
Shoot raw photos, then convert them to jpeg, and then edit them thru photoshop/lightroom?
Excelent video and very well explained! Still. I got a question - I'm using a Nikon D5300 to take pictures and I used to shot RAW (14 bt) + JPEG (fine quality), on site (what I do is landscape photography).
But at home, when I open the RAW files in Lightroom Classic, on my computer, they looks very very similar with the JPEG files, before any editing. I toook maybe more than 400 files, and all of them (I can say all), are very very similar with the JPEG generated by the camera. Never I had the differences in your example.
Is the camera so ggod than it produces very quality JPEG files? Or do I something missout, some Lightroom settings maybe, and what I actually see in the lightroom (even the RAW file is open, no doubht about it) is not the original RAW (flat, totally different thant the jpeg..)? Thx
Thanks, Ionut. I can imagine two reasons: 1. you don’t have any picture styles or dynamic range optimizing set in camera and 2. your default lightroom import setting is already improving the raw file a lot (not very likely though).
@@wolfamri Thx. Yes, indeed, I use Neutral picture style. Maybe also, I did not take pictures with high dynamic range neither..... I will see in the future, when I will shot different conditions :)
*I'm for RAW any day of the week!* Just dreaming cameras grow horsepower so that we could edit the RAWs right away like we do in mobile devices. As Tony Northrup fantasized, no reason not to have, say, Android\iOS right in the camera. Touchscreens are there, so it would unleash an unimaginable possibilities, including not only editing, but also sharing and even securing! While phones can not embed large sensors and lenses, real cameras can easily allow space for powerful processors and memory to operate any OS.
Paul, the new Zeiss camera has ZX1 already has Lightroom built in. But I really prefer to edit on a computer. Even an iPad is way to small for me 😂. But technology has very few limits. I remember my first PC in 1992. 240MB harddrive 😂😂😂.The speed of innovation is mindblowing!
@@wolfamri We'll see what comes out of it. Not sure the progress goes on if only the likes of Zeiss, Leica or Hasselblad implement it. I believe, when major selling players (Canon, Nikon, Sony, Panasonic, etc.) choose this way, then we start to catch up after phones. Yeah, I remember the colourful black and orange screen with Norton Commander and the only entertainment was tetris 😃
Technology will move forward, BUT whatever they can cram into a camera, we'll still be able to cram even more into a PC. It's true today and will still be true tomorrow. When it moves to AI-assisted processing, the computer's AI will be more robust than the camera's.
In-camera editing would be handy for news photographers, though, no doubt.
@@voxorox No doubts. But modern horsepowers of mobile devices are already more than enough for almost any editing (RAW photos to say the least). And considering it's much easier to share with soc.nets than from PC... I guess it's quite a rival.
Great presentation. You should run for President
😂 Thank you, Ravi 🤗🤗
Excellent video that even someone like me can understand.
Thank you so much, Richard 🤗🙏