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Remember that ?!? Whatever for ?? Doesnt apply. Thaz not queried by the poll. Shooting jpeg is shooting jpeg. What happens later doesnt matter.

JohnSwanda Loc: San Francisco

I have cameras with two card slots, and I shoot RAW on both, for a backup. It's so easy to generate a JPEG from a RAW that I can't see a use for me to shoot JPEG. Doing a lot of burst shooting would be a reason, so as not to fill the buffer, but I don't do that. I would recommend to the people shooting JPEG who aren't currently interested in learning to process RAW files to go ahead and shoot both so they will have the RAW files in the future when they might want to learn RAW. I started out with JPEG and I wish I had RAW files from back then.

Golfstitch Loc: Downingtown,PA

Raw

DirtFarmer Loc: Escaped from the NYC area, back to MA

I find burst shots useful on occasion. When I was shooting events there were two guys who spoke to an audience. They were high up in the organization so they spoke frequently and we needed shots of that for newsletters. But if you just took one shot, chances were large that while speaking, their face was contorted into the most amazing shapes. And there was no way to anticipate the shape. I had to take bursts of shots, sometimes as many as 50 shots to get one where they looked reasonable. I never took 50 shot bursts. I would take a number of 3-4 shot bursts, then do some chimping, then another burst if it didn't catch anything good.

I rarely did wildlife shots or BIF. For those I would take bursts, but again, only 3-4 at a time. The only time I would take something like a 7-shot burst was when I was bracketing. And I normally used 3-shot brackets.

Now that I think of it, I did a test a decade ago to see how many shots I could get with flash using high ISO so the flash would use minimum charge. I was able to take something like 10-shot bursts before the flash used all its charge. That was with a D3 and a SB800. Tried the same thing with a Nissin Di866 flash and was only able to get 3 shots before it ran out of charge. That was one of the things that convinced me to use Nikon speed lights instead of cheaper copies. That was in a fairly small room, bouncing from the ceiling. In a larger room I usually got fewer shots, but again, I rarely used that for more than 3-4 shots.

I find burst shots are useful when shooting a group with flash. If someone blinks after the pre-flash, the second or third shot will probably see them recovered from the blink. If there's a need to swap heads in the group shot, using a burst minimizes the time between shots so the background doesn't change much, and swapping heads is easier.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

CHG_CANON Loc: the Windy City

Sometimes I arrive at just the right time when a thousand images will surely capture something.

MrBob Loc: lookout Mtn. NE Alabama

PRO capture is a good starting point ion Olympus...

PhotoSnapper Loc: Salt Lake City, UT

Raw

Bri Loc: NZ

Both

gwilliams6

Thanks missed that page, LOL

Cheers

pjalper Loc: San Pedro Ca.

JPEG

Amadeus Loc: New York

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Ourspolair

BOTH

Granddad Loc: UK

Raw.

Tulsa Tom

JPEG