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Megabound
Oct 20, 2012

Depending on how much you want to spend, Adobe Lightroom is what I use for my cataloguing and editing. If you don't want to shell out for that Darktable is a free Lightroom like program that will do the same for you. Yes you should edit, getting something right in camera is the first step and sometimes that's enough but there's no shame in editing and tweaking an image to be the image you want. Shoot raw to get the most information out of the image for editing purposes but if you like the jpegs out of your camera just fine you can just use those too.

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Megabound
Oct 20, 2012

Yeah exactly, if you're enjoying your work and want to preserve the best possible copy of your image then RAW is the way to go. If you're happy with the jpeg output and you don't edit from that at all then you can save space and go jpegs. Raws you will need to edit tho as they don't have any of the in camera adjustments made applied to them (unless that has changed as I only shoot film). Maybe a digital shooter could chime in.

Megabound
Oct 20, 2012

That's a good tip, thanks.

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