I love the idea of JPEG, but I’m going back to raw for now. Shooting raw and processing black and white photos in Silver Efex Pro is King. Takes more time, but all I got is time. Not sure what’s going on with the Ricoh processor but I’ve noticed some really blotchy results when shooting higher ISOs. I like grainy photos, but it doesn’t look like grain. I can take a raw photo shot at the same ISO and it looks nice to me. I much prefer the digital grain over whatever the processor is creating. I also think processing the raw makes a more appealing black and white image. So raw for now.
I could always shoot at lower ISOs, but I love the flexibility of shooting at higher ISOs to make the GR point and shoot with no worries of depth of field. I just want to look and shoot.
Here’s a photo shot at ISO 6400 and processed in Silver Efex Pro. It has some added Tri-X simulated grain.
Chris Athanasiadis 
Wow, you have this John Free book. !!
Only RAW for me. never was a question. The time of editing is nothing. The disappointment of having destroyed the JPEG compression images is making the joy of photographing unpleasant, so why. ;-);
Ya man, signed too. Lucky I live so close to him.
I love the idea of JPEG but it’s too risky. I end up only having a few keepers each day so who cares if I spend a bit of extra time in post.
Indeed, I’m not a TikTok person, so posting in real-time is not in my habits.
additionally, I love to disconnect a little bit from the images i photographed today and review them just a few days or weeks later. Of course, sometimes I’m willing to see them immediately, but it depends on the situation – say, the images from the protests I prefer to review the next day
I’ve been thinking about processing five rolls at a time so I can disconnect. I might not go through five rolls in a month so I’m thinking about buying that big paterson tank.
Sounds like a plan. My Patterson size is for two tolls – 135.and 120 but i always prefer doing only one.. Slow doing is better for my concentration and dedication.