Raw vs jpg and in camera settings

[Dave Pickett]

Raw vs jpg and in camera settings

Can somebody confirm my thinking please? I have Nikon D60 and D90 but I am sure this applies equally to all Dslrs.

Cameras these days have all sorts of adjustments such as colour balance, sharpness, saturation, dynamic range etc.

My thinking is that these adjustments affect the in camera conversion from Raw to .jpg.
Therefore if shooting in Raw, none of these settings matter as in effect the ACR or whatever Raw editor you are using is performing the same tasks under the user’s control?

Is this correct or is there more to it?

 

[jgs001]

That's my understanding of it. I think the preview on the camera display is the adjusted image as if the camera had processed it.

 

[jerry12953]

Yes, I think that's right, though a more digitally minded person than myself might know better.

 

[Chappers]

The latest version of ACR in both Photoshop and Lightroom does enable the software to read these settings and apply them ( all be it Adobe's interpretation) to the image.

You are correct that the RAW image itself does not have any of these looks applied to it. This is sometimes the reason people comment that the Canon images processed through Canon's DPP software look better, as DPP does apply these looks as part of the initial image processing