saving raw data

Not really related to your article, but just a general
question. Having finally purchased a digital camera,
I am thinking about what data to save. The camera
can save JPEG and raw data simultaneously. I'm thinking
of saving high-quality JPEGs and raw data for all shots.
The JPEGs will probably be good enough for printing
things out, even enlargements, but if I really want
to go back and reprocess the raw data, I could.

Basically, with just JPEGs, what you see is all you've
got. With just raw, all the images have to be processed
before getting a useful, practical format. With both,
I have the best of both worlds, at the expense of saving
the raw data (about 20 MB a shot). I can still get more
than a hundred combination shots on a memory card, though,
and don't take enough pictures that disk space will be
a problem. (I take about 100-200 per year, or at least
have in the past. I'll probably take a lot more with the
digital camera, but take several shots where I took one
before then keep the best one and delete the others from
the memory card.)

What do most people do?

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