Originally Posted by Ralph
How can you be certain you'll _never_ update your shot again? At some point in your photography career you'll probably be asked to re-mangle prints you thought were 'final' - would you prefer to work with your cropped artifact laden 8 bit jpgs or your unadulterated RAWs? why limit your self when technology is improving daily and disks are inexpensive?
Maybe 10 years from now you'll run a new facial recognition program on your 'old' raw images/video only to find a shot of a now famous person canoodling with his mistress in the background of your misfocused lay-up shot @ a basketball game. How about improved noise reduction algorithms? Maybe an algorithm to correct slight OOF shots and crooked noses?
The potential is there and the cost is minimal to keep your raws around. I archive everything except gross OOF shots - call me a hoarder/pack-rat if you will, but It's neither expensive nor difficult to set up a robust long term archival system for your raw images.
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