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# 142 | Battle of the Fuji files
- URL: https://mitchellens.ink/monologue/battle-of-the-fuji-files/
- Published: 2021-05-22T15:49:00.000Z
- Updated: 2022-01-05T16:50:26.000Z
- Author: Mitchel Lensink
- Tags: Monologue, #monologue-365

Answering [the question I posed two days ago](https://mitchellens.ink/here-i-go-again-fujifilm-jpegs/): is a Fujifilm JPEG image good enough to fulfill my needs?

Yes, it just might be.

I shot a bunch of photos in different conditions the past two days in RAW+JPEG Fine.[1](#fn1-21807 "see footnote") I then imported them into Lightroom treating the JPEGs as separate photos next to the RAWs.[2](#fn2-21807 "see footnote")

Editing the RAW to my liking first and then comparing it to my SOOC JPEG, the JPEG might benefit from some light editing to create that *pop* you want in a photo. After that quick edit though, I might even prefer the look of the JPEG. After that I tried editing a JPEG first and applying the edits to the RAW. Even that worked fine. Guess what, I *still* preferred the look of the edited JPEG.

What is happening? Have I been doing it wrong all this time?

To support my point, here is the same shot three times. JPEG with basic edits, a JPEG with basic edits + exposure adjustments and a RAW with editing to my liking. Which basically is the same editing as the JPEG with basic edits + exposure adjustments. Oh, and they’re not in that order. Or maybe they are. Will you be able to tell which is which?

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1. You can do both at the same time, creating two separate files each time you press the shutter. [↩︎](#fnr1-21807 "return to article")
2. It’s a setting you can turn on, it won’t do that automatically. [↩︎](#fnr2-21807 "return to article")