Ysarex wrote:
That's because 1. Your raw editing skills are probably poor and 2. You screwed your exposure for the raw file by shooting raw+JPEG. You're exposing the raw and JPEG the same.
No offense but 1.my editing skills may not be near professional levels but they far exceed the average photographer. My photography skills are on the low end of the average photographer, but on the high end of the average photographers editing skills.
2. Yes, I expose the raw and jpg the same. I fooled a bit with messing up the exposure (ETTR,ETTL) so exposure correction was required and I quickly found that was a waste of time. When I occasionally screw up exposure it's seldom off enough it can't be adjusted with a jpg editor.
I like my exposures to be as close to perfect as possible, then, I can easily make adjustment to the JPG. In 25 years of digital photography and editing, I never once said boy, wish I had taken that one in RAW. In fact in the last few years the majority of my photo's were taken by my son and daughter on cell phones and those are the pictures I edit. Never did I think wish they were taken in RAW. In fact, most of their pictures need almost no tweaking as far as Color, Exposure, WB, Sharpness and all that. Certainly never more than what a jpg editor provides.
In Fact, cell phones today are a perfect example of how modern technology has made taking pictures almost all composure and the "camera" gets rest of it right in all but extreme circumstances.
Here is a cell phone selfie photo taken 4 years ago by my daughter on a ski lift in Breckenridge, CO. The only processing done is when she texted the photo to me and her software re-sized the photo to just 307 bytes. What I didn't like about the photo, taken one handed by a non-photographer, with a non-camera 50 feet in the air on a chairlift with her 3 year old was there was no editing that I thought was needed. No raw editor, not even a jpg editor was needed.
This photo is an average example cell phones capability (4 years ago) as far as color depth, sharpness, exposure and so on. The majority of their pictures benefit from cropping, straightening, distraction removal and so on. NONE of which shooting in RAW would make an iota of difference. When the above issues are off, it's seldom past the ability of jpg editors to correct.