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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Roy C" data-source="post: 1426856" data-attributes="member: 18798">I am with you on Raw being a advantage which is why I use it myself BUT the assumption made that a Raw shot must be sharper than a jpeg is just not true IMO it depends on how much or how little sharpening you decide to do. I stand by my statement that straight out of the Camera a Raw will be softer than a jpeg (unless the jpeg shooter has turned off all sharpening which I suggest is rarely done). Remember even a jpeg can be sharpened more in processing if required so how anyone can come to the conclusion that a Raw will be sharper than a jpeg is beyond me - maybe I am missing something !There have been a few threads on BF recently where people have used Raw for the first time and have been surprised that the results are not so good as their jpegs. What they have done is to merely convert the Raw, crop and resize and then compared results with a jpeg. My point was that there is nothing magical about shooting in Raw unless you are prepared to process the shot how you want it.It seems to me that a lot of people who shoot in jpeg do so because they do not want to do much,if anything at all in the way of processing and that is fair enough. for a lot of folk the less time they have to spend on a PC the better - I am not knocking that, each to their own.I guess my comment on having to know the finer points of processing was a bit over the top as you are right that on a lot of shots you do not have to do too much in Raw and once you get used to Raw work flow it need not take much time. I was thinking of things like selective sharpening, tweaking the highlights/shadows and selective noise reduction etc which comes as second nature to some but a lot of folk would find daunting.</blockquote>

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