[ygra]

Yeah, it's definitely nice to get ~1000 images per battery charge. But when uploading to the PC infrequently you'll then have to sort photos into groups to process individually (something I already hate with panoramas). Personally it's something I'd rather not do, at the expense of only getting ~200 photos per charge. It's also not necessary to compromise, as those special modes would be, well, special modes. So to preserve battery I could just as well shoot raw as normal.