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Ashley · 01-14-2009, 10:42 AM

Last night I deecided to see what the difference is between an untouched raw and straight from camera jpeg photograph when printed out. I set my K10D to RAW+jpeg and photographed a book shelf with the camera on a tripod and using self timer.

I was always lead to believe at least in the magazine articles I saw on the subject some time ago that a raw image will look dull, flat and need some post processing before being useable.

The crops I printed out at 200% revealed the raw image to be the same in colour and contrast but sharper than the jpeg!

I opened the images in Photoshop Elements 6 and printed from there.

I've been using raw for a few months now but have never tried to print the unprocessed raw photo.

Has anyone else tried this?

01-14-2009, 10:42 AM	#1
Ashley New Member Location: UK Gallery Photos: 4 Posts: 12	Unprocessed RAW v JPEG print test Last night I deecided to see what the difference is between an untouched raw and straight from camera jpeg photograph when printed out. I set my K10D to RAW+jpeg and photographed a book shelf with the camera on a tripod and using self timer. I was always lead to believe at least in the magazine articles I saw on the subject some time ago that a raw image will look dull, flat and need some post processing before being useable. The crops I printed out at 200% revealed the raw image to be the same in colour and contrast but sharper than the jpeg! I opened the images in Photoshop Elements 6 and printed from there. I've been using raw for a few months now but have never tried to print the unprocessed raw photo. Has anyone else tried this?