Shooting at sRAW is a bit like putting a gas restrictor on a Ferrari, kinda defeats the purpose of buying one in the first place. And you never know when you might need to put the photographic pedal to the metal.
But if you are strapped for disk space it is a significant consideration. It will cut per picture disk storage to less than half.
The real space killer for me used to be post processing in Photoshop(PS). Creating a post processed master file from PS takes up huge amounts of space... the more post processing I did the larger the files and sometimes I have multiple versions of a file. That is how I used up most of my disk space.
However, now I do the bulk of my post processing in Lightroom II(LRII). It is faster, easier uses almost no additional disk space per picture and can do 98% of what I did in PS. LRII stores all the PP in tiny sidecar files that barely adds a blip of disk storage.
That makes all the difference in the world. I use PS only when I need to.
Now I can capture all images at full resolution and PP to my heart's content. And scaling down images to the print sizes desired results in higher tonal quality and reduced digitization, especially with highly cropped pictures.
But then my goal is producing fine art images and that requires a higher level of quality, so larger density images is necessary. :)
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