Wow! The benifits of RAW!

On a recent family outing i was taking pictures of the family and the snowdonia mountains, which at the time were covered in snow.

Took pics of mountains and had to step up to +2 ev. Pics came out spot on!
Then took a load of family pics in an area where there wasnt much snow.

OOPS! Forgot to move the EV back! Blown out completly! I was gutted! Lost fantastic pics!

Luckily I had it on JPEG + RAW. So looked into Camera RAW on PS. The pictures have come out better than imagined! I would recomend any beginner like me to have JPEG+RAW as your image setting. At the end of the day you can delete all the RAW's if you want. If this has taught me anything its these things!

1. Always check your photo's as your taking them.
2. Remember what settings youve used previous.
3. Use JPEG + RAW (you can group delete them if need be)

raw is pretty neat, after 2 stops is usually when you start asking for to much. but 2 stops, that's a lot! glad you got your pictures.

I have never understood Jpg + RAW. Using DPP you can in seconds make exactly the same jpgs from the RAWs by simply not touching the defaults, selecting all and clicking Batch Convert. Moreover, every RAW already has a jpg embedded inside it and there is no lack of software that will extract it, again in seconds. Making separate jpgs in the camera is (in most cases) a waste of space.

I also don't understand JPG + RAW. Why not just go flat RAW?

Also, why delete the raw images. Those are the negatives. As your post processing skills improve you may choose to revisit old pictures. The editing opportunities for jpegs are very limited. I would always keep and archive the raw images.

Shoot Raw only and save the CR2's.. no point in wasting space on jpegs you won't touch.

I used to be RAW + JPEG, then i didnt bother and just went RAW and used CS3,4, or 5 to convert to JPEG.