Originally posted by pschlute That is exactly what it does. But i have to say if you want your images to look exactly like the in-camera profiles, why are you bothering to shoot raw ?
Because I am at that place where I'm not sure I will stay RAW or toggle over to Jpg. Currently I use the RAW button on my K-1 and toggle between RAW and Jpg (writing to both SD cards). But there are times I hit the buffer in RAW and thus try and predict this and toggle out and into Jpg (such as during the wedding last week, AF.C bursting for flower girl, and then after her maid of honour, and then father and bride etc.
I'm getting my settings working so well in camera these days I'm starting to question just how much breathing space I need for editing, I mean it's not like you can't edit a Jpg!
Take for example this SOOC (not a complete SOOC, I mean I used the in camera raw development of the RAW file and added vignette from the Digital Filter, but really this is a SOOC, no LR or post processing on a computer whatsoever);
And now an edit of the same shot from the RAW file in LR;
Not that much better, if at all! And I think I could have easily driven the Jpg to look like this if I tried.
But the point is, I knew when I took the shot RAW from judging the back of the LCD screen at the time I had a nice shot, sometimes I don't want to spend time taking the RAW file off to LR and process it etc, just to make it look like it did at the time. But I can't shoot RAW+ it's just too slow for what I do. So it's nice to know you can get what you would have seen at the time on the back of the camera from a RAW file one way or another.
I really hope to move to a Jpg only kinda shooter (at least 90% of the time, there will always be the need for RAW such as landscapes etc), because by going Jpg i will reap a heap of benefits.
I have another event tomorrow (paid) which I will chicken out of shooting Jpg in and will stick to RAW, but after tomorrow I think I will force myself to go Jpg for awhile and see just how much I am punished for making that decision...