kfoo Loc: Arkansas

I have a Nikon D7100. I am wondering if there is any advantage to set the image quality in the menu to the RAW+ settings?

Ysarex Loc: St. Louis

If you want the camera to save the JPEG then yes -- you get the JPEG. If you don't want the JPEG then not really. It's up to you if you want the JPEG. I for example do not and so I shoot raw only. To each...

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kfoo Loc: Arkansas

Thanks!

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

DaveyDitzer Loc: Western PA

I shoot RAW plus JPEG and can later decide which shots or which versions to discard. Easy use of JPEG is convenient in some cases.

rgrenaderphoto Loc: Hollywood, CA

You're already recording RAW files, and unless you want to post to Instagram or FB instantly, there's no point. What you should do, on any dual memory slot camera, is set the second card for real-time backup as RAW.

With today's high capacity memory cards, I have never filled up the primary card and had to wrap to the second. I have had a CF card fail on a D810, and had my get out of jail card with the second slot.

via the lens Loc: Northern California, near Yosemite NP

...only if you want something other than RAW format. For example, if I decided I wanted BW images then I could set my Nikon to RAW + JPEG FINE and set the Picture Controls to BW. Then I would see the JPEG image in BW on the camera viewing screen but I'd still have the RAW files to work with as well or I could simply use the JPEG BW file (the JPEG file would actually be outputted in BW while the RAW file would be outputted in RAW, thus not BW). A working professional photographer might need to quickly send images via bluetooth or quickly via the web so having a JPEG file would be the quick and easy way to do this. Other than something such as I've mentioned I can't see a good reason for using the RAW+.

Bobspez Loc: Southern NJ, USA

Your computer probably doesn't display thumbnails of raw files or raw images at all. It does display jpegs. Having the jpegs makes it easy to sift through your shots to see which raw images you want to post process.