Originally Posted by Ashley 
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?
there is no such thing as an unprocessed RAW
RAW is not an image format, it is not viewable.
your test is nothing more than a comparison of your camera exporting into JPEG, and photoshop elements 6 exporting into JPEG