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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Roy C" data-source="post: 1426739" data-attributes="member: 18798">On the contrary 'mikfoz', straight out of the Camera a RAW would be softer because there has not been any sharpening applied by the Camera as there would have been with a jpeg. The whole point of RAW is that you do all the processing instead of letting the Camera do it for you - what you get is a raw image. There is a misconception that if you shoot in RAW IQ and sharpness must be better, this will only be so if you are fully competent with the finer points of post processing.If you want a usable shot without doing too much processing then Raw is not for you. Having said that I always shoot in Raw as I want a image to be processed the way I want and not what the Camera thinks I want - (I also enjoy processing :t: )</blockquote>