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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Stephen Fletcher" data-source="post: 1417103" data-attributes="member: 72820">It is a facility used mainly by professional photographers, shooting large amounts of images, 15,000 or so at a time, e.g. at a big sports event, that need to be selected and transmitted to a head office quickly. The jpg and raw are paired, but only the jpg is looked at, for speed. Any shots that leap out of the screen are saved, and the raw is used for the processing, the rest are binned. For example, Sports Illustrated INSIST their staff photographers use raw+jpg, raw only would slow down their workflow. 15,000 images at 3 a second will still take an hour and a half to review, increasing that time is not acceptable. I know professional bird photographers who always use raw+jpg for the same reason.An amateur shooting for pleasure would just be wasting time and storage space for no reason.This may even be useful and enlightening to some people, and hopefully not toothache inducing.</blockquote>