jpeg and your local photo shop

The "only" camera shop in town accepts JPEGs for prints only. Is this a common practice with most businesses? Also, how's the quality of JPEG prints versus RAW up to 8"x10". I'll be needing a good printer service for soccer pics this fall.

Thanks!

Most photolabs only accept JPG or TIF.

Very few accept RAW.

As far as I know..you would not likely find anyone who will print from a RAW file. ALL of my files go to the printer in jpeg file format. There is no problem with quality loss unless you have opened and changed then resaved that jpeg file like 60-75 times.

Tom

That's what I thought...just needed some other opinions. Thanks guys!

You should probably move to a city that has more facilities
I am from Iowa

I got an explanation once....as the type of machine that does the processing cant handle the size beyond a jpeg? its been a wile...

I can take tif images to my printer….he likes the larger files, but he will not take raw and I don’t blame him.

Virtually no-one takes RAW. I've had 20x30 images printed from Q12 JPGs and they look great. I see no need for TIFF when printing.

How could a shop print from raw, when raw isn't even a standard??

The whole intention of RAW is to be able to correct your image after it was taken. Therefore, it should be you who sets the white balance, exposure correction and all. Therefore, it would be unlogical if camera shops would accept RAW.

There's enough variation in quality and settings when they print JPEGs, so I wouldn't want them to have my RAW files and tune it to their own liking.

P.

I was reading the posts above this one and thinking the same things...

RAW format is for you to adjust and turn into a JPEG (or TIFF) to be useable. All it really does is skip out on the in-camera PP work, and let you do it yourself later.