Meta4: At the risk of sounding didactic, pedantic, and probably old-fashioned, I'd change your last statement to: "My photos show what is possible with jpeg only." I'm probably like this because I'm a photographer first and a droner second. Of course your mileage may vary.
I've shot in jpeg, raw, and whatever else is out there; hell, I'm so old I've even shot in film! And, truth be told, I have on occasion, even shot myself in the foot!
One can indeed get great photos out of only the jpeg information, but you are handicapping yourself by throwing out, so, so, so much information. And why? Because you're satisfied with a computer's interpretation of your work.
It's like being a painter, but only using 4 tubes of paint when there are literally hundreds out there. It's like having a Beethoven symphony score in front of you, but you've decided, for expediency's, and cost's sake to use one violin, a cello and two oboes; hey, I can still recognize his 5th by those 4 first simple notes, so why pay for all those extra musicians -- **** musician's union! They'll drive me f...king broke!
I still do, on rare occasion, shoot in jpg if I'm in a hurry, and the end result is going to be used, say, only on the internet. But even then I shoot in jpg AND raw; just in case.
Just in case the shot is really great -- because I can then tweak it to its maximum, or, just in case the shot is bad, and I have to 'fix' it with aforesaid "pixel-peeping". This is particularly true with slight overexposure where some of the blown-out highlights can be saved in raw, or where the color temperature has to be altered. Changing color temperature in jpg is an exercise in futility -- although it can on occasion be successful.
I can just hear Ansel Adams turning over in his grave and saying, "I never pixel-peep in the dark-room. Whatever the film captures is good enough for me!"
With jpg, you are still pixel-peeping, but with that little computer in the camera doing your "pixel-peeping" for you.
Yes, you can still get good pictures out of a jpg file.
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