Whether the default RAW conversion looks better or worse than JPEG depends on what the default settings are. I generally find ACR/LR's default settings to be pretty poor, but other converters (Notably CaptureOne) have better default settings. Note that with most RAW converters you can save your own set of default settings and use those instead of the ones that come stock (I found this to be necessary with ACR)
Pentax's default JPEGs are decent but nothing more, I'd be shocked if the RAW didn't look better. Since I do everything in RAW anyways, I really don't look closely at the JPEG settings and my K-x remains set to the defaults. -Adam On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 5:23 PM, CheekyGeek <[email protected]> wrote: > I guess this qualifies as a newbie question. I don't have Lightroom > (yet) and so use Picasa to import photos from my SD card. > Lately, I've really noticed that in Picasa the RAW thumbnails looks > substantially better than the corresponding JPEG (I always shoot > RAW+JPEG). > Example here: http://www.pixelsmithy.com/img/rawVSjpeg.png > > I always thought although the RAW contains more information and could > look better after post-processing, it would normally look a bit worse > than the JPEG. > > I was wondering if I could poll you on what your settings are for > in-camera JPEG processing (and which menu settings you have tweaked). > I guess in my case, I definitely would like them to look at least as > good as the RAW thumbnail looks! > > Thanks in advance for any words of wisdom! > > Darren Addy > Kearney, NE > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- M. Adam Maas http://www.mawz.ca Explorations of the City Around Us. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
