Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Peter Johngren 
<pjohngren@y...> wrote:
> Christer -
> 
> I don't doubt that you can get excellent results with
> RAW - that is not the point.  The point is, that you
> can also get excellent results with jpeg provided you
> make the right choices to begin with.  Once you are in
> the habit of doing it right the first time, you save
> yourself a huge amount of time by letting the camera
> do the initial processing.  At least that is the case
> with the Nikon D-70.  
> 
> Once you learn what you want and how to get it, there
> is no point in deferring your decisions to the
> post-processing phase and creating all that
> unnecessary work for yourself.  Instead, you can spend
> your time taking and printing pictures and having more
> fun doing so.  It is incredibly more efficient.

I went and read the Ken Rockwell article. In that article he linked 
to a site by Petteri Sulonen who advocates the use of RAW. After 
reading both sites, I truely believe that Mr. Sulonen makes a much 
better case for his position, than Mr. Rockwell does for his.

Since I don't shoot thousands or even hundreds of shots at one 
session, I don't have to wire the results to an editor to make a 
deadline, and I often don't even know what size I will want to print 
the final image, it just seems that shooting RAW is a much more 
flexible system for me to use.