From the course: Photography Foundations: Exposure (part 2)

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Shooting raw

Shooting raw

From the course: Photography Foundations: Exposure (part 2)

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Shooting raw

- By default your camera shoots in JPEG mode, meaning that it stores it's images on it's media card in JPEG format. JPEG is a standard format so it's widely supported by all kinds of software from image editors, to web browsers, to word processors. JPEG is also significant because it uses very sophisticated data compression algorithms to greatly reduce the size of your image files and it does all that with little to no visible quality loss depending on your JPEG settings. In the early days, digital cameras would not have been practical without JPEG because storage was so expensive. Nowadays, flash cards and hard drives are cheap so trying to manage storage space is not the concern that it used to be. But the small size of a JPEG file is still important because now we like to upload and transmit our images. However, there is a price to pay for that small size. The JPEG compression process is lossy. Feel like there should be an organ sting there right now. Lossy means that there is a…

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