Photography basics – Benefits and drawbacks of shooting in RAW format

The benefits and drawbacks of shooting in RAW format as compared to JPG are:

RAW format has a higher dynamic range which allows you to recover lost highlights and shadows in post processing
White balance, sharpness, contrast, colour saturation etc can be adjusted and can be reverted back to their original settings without compromising image quality. Any changes made to JPG are permanent.
Chromatic aberrations (colour fringing) can be corrected when the RAW file is converted to JPG
Easier to keep the RAW file and convert it into JPG after making adjustments to the same file instead of keeping the original JPG and making a copy every time adjustments need to be made
RAW takes up about twice as much space as JPG
RAW requires more processing power from the camera, which means a drop in continuous shooting

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