I’ve gradually weened myself from shooting raw photos to only JPEGs. I initially heard about shooting small JPEGs from Eric Kim years ago, but I was too heavily influenced by basically everyone that says we should ALWAYS shoot raw. I dabbled in it a bit but never stuck with it. So now more recently I decided to dedicate myself to JPEG only. I haven’t shoot one raw photo in months and I have zero regrets. And even further, I went from large JPEGs to now only small JPEGs. At the end of every month, I transfer all my monthly photos to a hard drive. Here are the number of files and size for the last six months. September was my first full month shooting only JPEGs. And November was the first full month shooting only small JPEGs.
June 2023: 329 photos/12.23 GB
July 2023: 510 photos/10.24 GB
August 2023: 922 photos/9.33 GB
September 2023: 834 photos/5.45 GB
October 2023: 661 photos/2.8 GB
November 2023: 552 photos/ 1.05 GB
There it is, drastic difference between raw and JPEG.
Chris Athanasiadis 