If it’s going to be something that I plan on printing I do shoot in raw and have a converter. For web based stuff I don’t bother because of file size and time. After all how much do you need for 72 dpi?
I use photoshop 7. Can’t talk myself into spending the money on CS.
You have a point on the digital thing. However, it really bugs me that I spent over twenty years learning film, how light reacts to it and even how light reacts to different types of film and even different brands of the same types of film and then one day “poof” all that knowledge becomes useless.
What really bothers me is when I see a kid lighting something really wrong and mention something and the reply is “No biggie, I’ll fix it in photoshop.” CRINGE
