Fuck RAW

After three years advocating shooting RAW and using apps such as Adobe Camera Raw and Apple’s Aperture to complicate my life, I have finally come to the realization that RAW is a waste of time offering little tangible benefit, and that apps like Aperture, Lightroom and Camera Raw are a needless category of software with little reason to exist except for highly anal retentive control freaks and PC users.

See, there’s a highly sophisticated RAW processing program built into digital cameras such as my Canon 10D that works instantaneously, functions flawlessly, and requires no user interaction. Take advantage of it. Shoot JPEG, and get on with life.