Why should YOU be shooting in RAW format and Copyrighting your images.

There are several reasons to shoot in raw or raw + jpg. yes several, even for those of you that say I do not need the flexibility of raw because I do not or actually cannot do post processing for what ever reasons... ... ... Unless you are shooting as strictly a photo-journalist then you need that raw file, even photo-journalist really do need it also if for nothing else than as proof you are the originator of the jpg image.
you see if someone steals your image and you have to go to court to prove that image is yours...just exactly how are you going to do that with only a jpg or tiff image...the metadata can all be altered for the thief's benefit...so with out a negative (raw file) how are you going to prove it.

Protect yourself and waste a little bit of memory card space and harddrive space and shoot in raw or raw+jpg...it is the only sure fire way to protect your ownership, especially if you do not religiously copyright your images thru the Copyright Office...and yes for maximum copyright protection you really need to spend the 35-50 $ to send in a copy of your image files to the copyright office every few months of so...or every 1K processed images and remember that you need to re-copyright the image if you make changes to it...so if you have an image that has been processed and cropped 20 different ways you need to copyright each one.

Wow extremely fast shipping from Japan.

I made a purchase for a small lens accessory that was in Japan...Made purchase, paid for item on 3-1-2012...today 3-6-2012..the post lady handed it to me...the purchase was done at night so the box did not ship that day....I am not sure what the time difference is and that really does not matter....I just could not believe that it arrived in less than a week.. WOW ...