Are just jpegs OK?

[AVALANCHE]

I am confused? Are you trying to say you should choose RAW for the official stuff and JPG for the candids here? I cannot work out what you post has to do with the original question. This thread is about the benefits/disadvantages of shooting RAW and/or JPG, not about shooting candids at a wedding

Yes, this thread is about the pros/cons of jpeg and raw, and OP was using Weddings as an example of such shooting.

He then wanted to know the place of jpeg shooting for a Wedding and suggested candids at the reception, which inferred in my mind that he might not consider candid shots as important as his other shots if switching from raw to jpeg for them, though as you can see above I feel it is important, so the point of my post was to stay in raw when shooting at weddings, unless of course you dont understand/appreciate what it can do, so in that case, one would stay in jpeg the whole time for sanitys sake when it comes to uploading them.

[ameerat42]

Yes, this thread is about the pros/cons of jpeg and raw, and OP was using Weddings as an example of such shooting.

He then wanted to know the place of jpeg shooting for a Wedding and suggested candids at the reception, which inferred in my mind that he might not consider candid shots as important as his other shots if switching from raw to jpeg for them, though as you can see above I feel it is important, so the point of my post was to stay in raw when shooting at weddings, unless of course you dont understand/appreciate what it can do, so in that case, one would stay in jpeg the whole time for sanitys sake when it comes to uploading them.

Oh Avalanche! So did I utterly fail to convey my meaning again? Oh well, here goes.

Every now and then a thread comes up specifically asking the benefits of shooting jpgs vs raw.
This thread is NOT one of those. It sort of assumes - you see I said, "Mainly for the pros..." That meant such as wedding photographers - that they are not the only people who understand both file formats.

Instead, it is about whether there are ANY MERITS in shooting the likes of a wedding - or pick any other event where the potential to generate masses of images is high - using jpeg instead of raw, given that you know about both.

Since I took the example of a wedding, with the attendant reception as the likely high-volume-image-generator, I then offered as a "start-off" the possibility that, if anywhen, there would be the place that perhaps it might "do". Noticed I wrapped it fairly snugly in a "maybe" qualifying blanket.

But, from that opening post, you cannot infer that it is my predilection to do so. Cripes! I do not even photograph people! But you wouldn't have known that.

OK, so from your reply I know you think there is no place at weddings, at least, for a professional photographer to shoot jpegs only.
Ta, Am.