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Message: <blockquote data-quote="RJM" data-source="post: 1437952" data-attributes="member: 66340">After installing the firmware update, I shot alot of RAW this weekend and think I will stick with the SX1 camera JPEGs.  Frankly, I am a little puzzled as when the camera is set to take RAW + JPEG Large Fine, both the RAW file and JPEG appear to have identical quality. But the RAW alone is never as good as my own custom JPEG settings. No matter how I tweaked the RAW files in the Canon DPP RAW editor, I could not get output that was as as nice as camera JPEG. The RAW pics just lack the sharpness of the JPEG Large Superfine and Custom Contrast +1 and Saturation +1.  So unless you regularly blow the exposure, I would say there is no point in using RAW. Not worth the loss of features, slower continuous shooting speeds, huge files or the processing effort. And correct exposure should be adjusted in the field anyway. Maybe if the RAW could be processed with a different converter the results might be better.  somewhat disappointed,Rick</blockquote>