>>BMP has zero quality failure, so it has better look.
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>Better than what? JPG can use different level of compression and look not worse than BMP. It all depends on requirements. There're also GIF and PNG formats that use lossless compression.

BMP is a raw format. Professional cameras support raw format because of zero compress-zero loss.

I prefer jpeg if I'm creating a customer photo database because of storage problems.

But I prefer bmp for my application or my customers logos, signatures because there isn't any storage problem for these.