Quote Originally Posted by djKianoosh View Post
what he said.

though I recommend shooting in RAW+JPG. here's why. while Travis' suggestion is a very good one (you probably should concern yourself more with shooting jpg and trying to get the picture just right straight out of the camera) most probably in a year or two you'll be good enough with all of that where you can go back to the raw files you take now and re-process them with what you know then. follow me? in other words, you retain the digital 'negatives', the raw files, and later have the chance to go back to them.

you never know. I went back over some raw files that I took a couple years ago, and re-processing them with the latest raw converters makes a pretty big difference in some cases. that's only because the raw processing software keeps getting better. if you only shoot jpg, then you can't take too much advantage of that down the line. just another thought to consider.
good idea! if you have a raw+jpg function you may want to house the raw's for later on when you are more tuned... raw allows you to better recover lost hightlights (blown skies etc) and lost shadows.... this maybe helpful if you shoot some good keepers early on....