imagemeister wrote:
As eluded to by Ysarex, IF you have enough hardware/memory, enough software, enough knowledge and experience to run the software, enough time and patience in PP-ing, then , IF you look CLOSE, you may perceive a gain in what might appear as "sharpness" ....IF you put them side by side.
AND it really is camera make/model dependent. All of our cameras do not use the same embedded processing software. There are real differences. At low ISO values my Nikon makes a very good JPEG that's hard for me to beat in terms of the basic processing: demosaicing, input profile, sharpening and fine detail rendition, lens profile, contrast and tone response. I can't say that's equally true of all of my cameras.