6. Clarification Station
RAW vs. JPG, Pixels, Resolution, and Death by Cropping!
If you’ve talked to other shutterbugs, read most any photo magazine, or dug around deep enough in your camera’s settings menu, chances are you’ve come across the option for capturing images in either RAW or JPG file formats. When you asked around, you got a smorgasbord of different opinions garbled together with only bits and pieces of an actual answer, leaving you more confused than before.
Or have you ever been confused by terms such as pixels, megapixels, and resolution? You’re not alone. In this chapter, we’ll tackle it all, including the one thing that can ...
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