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RAW vs. JPG for mobile devices

RAW vs. JPG for mobile devices

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RAW vs. JPG for mobile devices

- [Instructor] Earlier, I talked about capturing RAW + JPEG, if you're shooting with a mirrorless camera. Particularly good if you're applying effects, because those effects go to the JPEGs, and than your RAW files are your safety net. Well actually you can do that with your smartphone too, and whether it's an iOS device or an Android device, they all have apps that allow you to capture in RAW. Right now, we're looking at the preferences screen for an app that I like, called Camera+ 2, and it allows me to capture in RAW Lightroom mobile, provides that same functionality for both Android and iOS, and many others. Once you decide which app you want to use, then you open up the preferences, and in my case, I'm doing both JPEG and RAW, because I want both. JPEGs are much easier to share, especially directly from the phone, right after the shoot, or even during the shoot, and then later on, I can work on those RAW files, either on my mobile device, or, as I normally do, upload them to the…

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