I shot in JPEG :(

i always shoot small JPEG not RAW
I don't need to edit my photos
I love SOOC ( Straight Out Of Camera )

Camera is always off when not being used and always check to make sure RAW is enabled before a shoot.

I've had a couple funny experiences!

Once I was shooting a sporting event, and I set my camera to Raw+jpeg, because I wanted some out-of-camera jpegs quickly available for review by myself and some folks who were involved in the event, and I was needing mobility/portability, so I could take my SD/jpeg card into the trailer of the media guys and we could go over the jpegs, burn some onto CDs, etc...

Then, first, I forgot to switch back to Raw only until I "caught" myself, and second, it was pretty mind-spinning when I got back to my workstation, unloaded/imported a whole lot of shots, and found myself staring at all these Raw/jpeg duplicates!

On another occasion, I had set a camera to shoot jpegs for some type of experiment I was doing, then forgot about it. I then got involved in shooting a Halloween house party, got a lot of shots, then going over my shots found out that they were all jpegs!

Fortunately, in that instance, I was shooting indoors with decent ambient light and a flash and I had set things up to get good balanced exposures, so didn't need to "mess" with things!

Charlie wrote in post #16963285
studios with good lighting dont *NEED* raw, the shot should come out with minimal processing to maximize efficiency anyhow. Shoot raw if you want to manipulate.

Sorry, should have pointed out that the "studio" is the company; they have 20+ wedding photogs including me.

As someone else said, weddings are all about quick reactions without necessarily having time to handle changing conditions. I just did my third straight outside wedding on saturday, and those really suck. You've got the bride's face in shadow and his in sun, so someone somewhere needs to do work to recover some details when getting the wider shots. It's easier when you come in for the tighter shots of one or the other, but exposure and WB will never be perfect. They do a pretty good job in those cases, but sometimes there isn't anything you can do with jpegs.

CyberDyneSystems wrote in post #16963179
I've never had my camera switch to jpeg on it's own, but I've been the culprit on more than one occasion.
"It's just to take for sale photos, small jpeg is perfect"

then put camera back in bag... DUH!

Done this myself dozens of times. To make matters worse, I have a custom setting on my 7D for shooting small jpegs when I want to do shoot photo stitches with lots of individual shots. SO any time the camera bumps my leg it can rotate the dial and put it on that setting. So I get small jpegs instead of RAW files if I don't pay attention. Been thinking about that 7D locking mode dial mod but wanted to see what the supposed 7DII has to offer before spending an extra $100 on this body.

I had taken a few photos on the plane ride to Hawaii with my Rebel XT. The buttons on the back were very touchy and inadvertently did a delete all on the card. Luckily it was only 4 or 5 photos of my daughter on the plane. Since then I always turn it off when it goes in the bag.

kfreels wrote in post #16964168
Done this myself dozens of times. To make matters worse, I have a custom setting on my 7D for shooting small jpegs when I want to do shoot photo stitches with lots of individual shots. SO any time the camera bumps my leg it can rotate the dial and put it on that setting. So I get small jpegs instead of RAW files if I don't pay attention. Been thinking about that 7D locking mode dial mod but wanted to see what the supposed 7DII has to offer before spending an extra $100 on this body.

Gawd I hate that non-locking dial on my 7D!! Just breathing around it would change it! So I got me a 5D3 and am so much happier. The Mode dial lock and the silent shooting mode are reason enough to upgrade!!

snerd wrote in post #16964207
Gawd I hate that non-locking dial on my 7D!! Just breathing around it would change it! So I got me a 5D3 and am so much happier. The Mode dial lock and the silent shooting mode are reason enough to upgrade!!

I paid the $100 to canon to put the locking knob on it

I paid much more, since I got rid of the mode dial by purchasing a 1DX...

I'm pretty much a raw shooter all the way, simply because for me and what I do things change so quickly it's hard to set up camera for each shot for me. About a week ago I decided I'm going to try just jpeg, and for the most part they came out well but there were a couple that I really wanted that didn't fair so well...guess that's the chance you take.

I know wedding photographers can't possibly shoot raw all the time, there dealing with a few thousand shots to go through. At least that is what one told me, so jpeg does have it's place I guess. But I'm sure they have a ton of through aways anyway for the amount they shoot.

Charlie wrote in post #16963285
... Shoot raw if you want to manipulate.

This is just one of the reasons people shoot raw.
If you think it's the only reasons, well, you'd be mistaken.

I know that claiming "getting it right in camera" is held up as a reason not to shoot raw. I'm fine with that reason, but it occurs to me that anyone looking for the best image the camera can output would know that getting it right in camera is only part of the battle.

There are absolutely many good reasons to shoot jpeg as opposed to RAW.
Claiming to be seeking in camera perfection however, is a misnomer of the highest magnitude.

1Tanker wrote in post #16962607
I shoot RAW + Jpeg exclusively. I never vary from this. As such, i never have to worry about these settings, as they're set when the camera is new... and it gets sold that way.

I am the same way. I keep lots of CF and download to computer often.

I make up my mind. Either I decide that it's jpeg time, or that it's RAW time, but creating a jpeg and a RAW at the same time, in camera, when the jpeg easily can be created from the RAW afterwards, in the computer, that I do only for very specific reasons.

Like wanting a RAW but also desiring immediate transfer of the picture to a computer. Then the jpeg is much quicker to transfer, and I frequently then make the jpeg a small one with lower quality, to really take advantage of small file size.

By some quirk I've yet to figure out, my newest version of Ubuntu photo manager (Shotwell) will recover the embedded jpeg and store it alongside the RAW. (Otherwise, you don't get a proper view of the RAW as thumbnail or review image).

So, I only shoot RAW. Saves time when recording the photo and memory space in the card. And no, I don't record in both cards.

You got pics. Which is better than what you would have got had there been something wrong with the camera. Don't be too hard on yourself. It happens. I drove 65 miles for a landscape shot only to realise that it was in JPEG after a firmware update.