I know it might be personal preference as whether to comply with Adobe. But maybe the performance of the two got difference?
So what format do you suggest and why?
So what format do you suggest and why?
By default the original camera raw will preserve and give better colours from what I heard but any pro can confirm that?
It depends on how you process the RAW file. If you convert the RAW file without doing any processing it will look dull. The in-camera RAW->JPEG conversion usually does some post-processing to improve the image by doing saturation, sharpening, correcting exposure, etc. So when you process the RAW yourself, you will typically add some of these post-processing too, and control how much and how little and what stuff to apply, and if you are experienced you can get the nice colours that you like.
You can still do post-processing with JPEG, but it is definitely not optimal because a lot of data has been lost already in the first conversion to JPEG, that you cannot recover and make use of. So you will end up with more recompression and requantisation noise.
99.9% of the time I shoot JPEG.
If RAW, then I shoot using DNG as its easier to find the plugin for the windows explorer to display as thumbnails. Its a more 'generic' format as well, and guards against potential loss of file support.