Lol so many food analogies... They have given me a clearer picture now indeed! Thanks guys!
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Raw file is like uncooked rice, you can make porridge, chicken rice, nasi briyani or sushi etc.
JPG file is like cooked rice, probably you can make fried rice out of it, but noting much.
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The above statement is correct...
TS..depending on what you want, Cooked rice or Uncooked rice...
Lets look at another direction, when you go to hawker center, you only look for the food that you want to eat...you buy chicken rice and get chicken rice...
..porridge, chicken rice, nasi briyani, nasi lamak, Vegetable Rice, fried Rice.... all are cooked rice.
Do you want a uncooked Rice?
Do you want to wait for the rice to cook and eat?
Do you want to prepare all the necessary ingredient to put into the rice?
My point is, there's lots of time wasted needed to prepare, cook and serve a plate of rice....something that your mum cook for you. Spend days to buy the veg, plan, prepare it, cook it....you just spend less than 10mins to eat it.
Similar as JPG vs Raw...
Takes way longer to process...considering if you are real shooter. Can you process 1000+ Raw files shot per day?
Takes up too much storage space...
Raw only able to open on specific software and is proprietary.
You can't display Raw on the web.
80-90% you upload to web/facebook.. is low resolution jpg
One full frame raw is close to 20Mb or more...
Your computer or notebook will need more hardware or graphic support this high processes...
More memory card capacity is needed...
In any which way, there's good and bad.
But then, who cares you are using Raw or Jpg....
You have to balance when to use Raw and when to use Jpg....
I always like Cooked Rice....
Get what you want in-camera...Remember