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Digital Camera World
Digital Camera World
Rod Lawton

"Limitations" boost photographic creativity – here's why I ditched RAWs and zooms, and embraced JPEGs and prime lenses

Photographer James Artaius holding a Leica Q3 Monochrom.

You may have noticed that there is some debate among photographers between the JPEG and RAW formats. Actually JPEG vs RAW isn't much of a debate since, on the face of it, RAW files offer so much more flexibility than JPEGs for editing later on, and few practical disadvantages.

But here’s the thing. With flexibility comes choice and with choice comes decisions – and for photographers, decisions are not always easy to arrive at.

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