02/20/2025
RAW vs JPEG: Raw is still king. But now that I have a Z9, especially for sports, at 20 frames per second, I easily wind up with about 4,000 images for a sports tournament. I'm not going to develop 4,000 raw files, and I don't need the bit depth. These are going on the Web for free for parents to download. I dial in the JPEG settings in the camera and shoot JPEG Fine*. Then the editing is just about selection and cropping, as fast as I can. If I need to adjust the color or contrast a bit, it's pretty easy to do it by series. Still have about 20GB of JPEGs from one tournament, but it's better than the about 80GB that I started with. They're easily 10MB-20MB per file from the Z9.