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Message: <blockquote data-quote="OK_Scissortail" data-source="post: 1417730" data-attributes="member: 69335">Well tried things out more today. So far everything is working well for now. I shot in RAW only, downloaded photos and then later shot in RAW again and then towards end switched back to RAW + JPG. I compared the efforts, yep got it all to download both raw and raw +jpg..whew! I do see where the RAW photos were a tad better then the compressed jpg photos. Some looked the same but most of them easy to see a difference. So everything good so far I have actually leaped forward into taking RAW photos and downloading them successfully! Next I experimented with the programs I have for the RAW photos. Zoom Browser will open them but I can't crop etc. I opened up a program that came with camera called Digital Photo Professional and it did let me crop, change other things and convert to jpg. Sounds good eh? Well...I'm a slow learner here so bare with me. The results after cropping was horrible..way to much noise in photo. I am having a hard time with my photos with sharpening for a crisp clean look to getting noise out. My subjects are reasonably close..3 feet to 15 feet away. If I clean the noise up photo is too soft, if I sharpen noise again...AHHHHH. Weather, light all seem to be fine. before I thought I have to get closer to get subjects to help with all this, which I have. I can be still as a mouse and have sparrows coming right up to me in my yard but I am still not getting an end result with the photo that I like. I'll admit the photos are better then what my Canon S3 did by a long shot. My question is how does one work with the RAW photo to pull the even better result? What steps do you all use that may help me? As for quality maybe it is just the lens not being an L series, but if it is, be awhile before I can get one of those.</blockquote>

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