Poor quality RAW on my new D200????

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Hi'all.
Quite odd, but shot a few RAW to mess about with, but when I open, edit and save them as JPEG's, the quality just seems to disappear.
Not so much the quality I suppose, but the pictures lack the 'punch' they had when they were RAW's.
Color seems dull and lifeless, as does contrast.

JPEG's are fabbo. Crispy, bright and sharp.

Is it me?

Probably :D
 
What you are seeing on the back of the camera is a jpeg with all the in camera settings applied.

RAW is not sispalyed on the screen, you have to apply some PP in your image app to get the best out of it but it is worth it.
 
PsiFox said:
What you are seeing on the back of the camera is a jpeg with all the in camera settings applied.

RAW is not sispalyed on the screen, you have to apply some PP in your image app to get the best out of it but it is worth it.
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:agree:

If you have the camera set up to give, say increased saturation then you will see it on the lcd from the embedded jpeg, but the raw file will be, well, raw.

I can't remember what programme I was using to open my RAW files at first, either ACR or ToneUP S3, but when you opened the file at first it appeared on the screen as shot, with all the adjustments which then proceeded to vanish before your eyes, the pic resorting back to the RAW, unadjusted state :bonk:
 
Cheers guys.

I'm using PS CS2 to edit and convert RAW's.
They look great, it's when I save them as JPEG they lose the 'special touch'!
 
It's when I save them as a JPEG flash.......

Just done a TIFF.
All detail preserved, ie contrast, sharpness, brightness etc.
BUT, saved as a JPEG, and the same again. Dull, bland, colorless........

:bang:
 
strange, this happened to a girl at college the other day, she would see her images just lovely in bridge, then when she clicked on them, they would totally de-saturate and go all funny... very strange

it was a Nikon as well...
 
It's sounds like the tell tale signals of mis-matched colour spaces to me.

Check the working colour profile of CS2.
 
feeb said:
strange, this happened to a girl at college the other day, she would see her images just lovely in bridge, then when she clicked on them, they would totally de-saturate and go all funny... very strange

it was a Nikon as well...
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:shrug:

Strange. This is kinda what is happening to me.........
 
UPDATE:
A little bit of progress, perhaps......

In the folder that I'm storing the original RAW, well there's another new file once I've edited and saved as a JPEG.
The file is a .xmp file. So the RAW shot is named DSC_0007.nef, there's another called DSC_0007.xmp

I've been deleting the .xmp files!
Whatever they are :D

Just gone through the process again, without deleting the .xmp file, and Robert's your father's brother!!!!!!
 
andy_fozzy said:
UPDATE:
A little bit of progress, perhaps......

In the folder that I'm storing the original RAW, well there's another new file once I've edited and saved as a JPEG.
The file is a .xmp file. So the RAW shot is named DSC_0007.nef, there's another called DSC_0007.xmp

I've been deleting the .xmp files!
Whatever they are :D

Just gone through the process again, without deleting the .xmp file, and Robert's your father's brother!!!!!!
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Yes don't do that :nono:, they are your little friends, they are the side car files that accompany your raw files, reminding the raw what changes you have made in acr :thumbs:
 
Hehe, yes the .xmp file is the metadata that holds all the info. Deleting it effectively puts you back to square one.
 
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