Re: Picasa: RAW looks better than JPEG (K200D)

On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 5:23 PM, CheekyGeek cheekyg...@gmail.com wrote: 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). Darren Addy Kearney, NE I have my K10D set at defaults. I shoot 99% jpeg with this

Re: Picasa: RAW looks better than JPEG (K200D)

I used to work that way. I always thought that in case of the RAW I was looking to a picture converted to Jpeg by Picase. There was a clear difference in the two pictures, but I do not remember which one was best. Nowedays I shoot in raw, save the out of camera raw on a external disk, work

Picasa: RAW looks better than JPEG (K200D)

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:

Re: Picasa: RAW looks better than JPEG (K200D)

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