RAW or JPEG for casual shooting

Back to list2026-06-13
You

Is RAW worth the storage for holiday photos?

ChatGPT

For photos you will edit, yes; for the rest it is a tax you pay forever. A practical middle ground is RAW plus JPEG on trips and JPEG only for everyday shots, then discarding the RAWs you never opened after a year.

Tool steps: 3 (reasoning summary, call to python, execution output)
reasoning summary
Checked the query plan, then compared index options.
call to python
rows = run_sql("EXPLAIN (ANALYZE) SELECT ...")
print(rows[:3])
execution output
Seq Scan on events  (cost=0.00..812431.00 rows=41203122 width=16)
  Rows Removed by Filter: 38996878
Planning Time: 0.214 ms
Execution Time: 11842.663 ms
You

Is there a simpler version that gets most of the benefit?

ChatGPT

Yes: do the first step, skip the automation, and revisit in a month. Most of the value is in the first step, and most of the cost is in making it repeatable before you know it is right.