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Originally Posted by Smack dat
My wife is an amateur photographer that takes pretty amazing photos "professionally" as part of our business. We charge people for time in the studio and send the photos to them by download link.
To date we have only ever sent the .jpegs to people. Should we be sending the raw image as well?
We have done perhaps 500+ shoots and never had anyone request RAW but I often wonder if people expect that from a professional.
The other thing is it's easy to take photos in jpeg and do nothing to them and send them in jpeg. With RAW they would need to be converted.
Also would you take in RAW amd convert to JPEG and send both formats?
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If you use a pro wedding photographer as an example, when film was used they would only supply you with prints and keep the negs for possible future sales.
But when i used to shoot film for magazines i would always send them the transparency normally Ektachrome. But nowadays i send the raw files for the guys in the UK to manipulate.
I don't see the need to send retail customers who are not having the images used for commercial purposes the raw files
Most Pro cameras will shoot both Raw and jpg at the same time and save them to a card or direct to a laptop, so setting your camera up this way is always a good idea.
When i shoot in a studio which is about 80% of what i do i WIFI direct to my laptop which has way more storage than any card and i find it very quick even with a raw file size of 110MB from my Hasselblad X1D