photo_chick
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- Mar 1, 2007
Professional shops will want RAW because they intend to do a lot of image manipulation, like resizing or processing, and require the flexibility of working from a 100% quality "negative".
Actually all the shops I've worked with that do heavy image editing prefer jpeg because it is a standard format.
The image quality loss is there, but it's not as much as photographers like to think in the right hands. When it comes down to it, when done right, it's not any more visible than if you save a jpeg straight from a processed RAW file.