Yes dear - the world still loves you - here's a Popsicle, now go play with your friends.

I'm having a hard time searching for anything on this. I guess I thought if my camera shoots RAW it displays RAW.

Okay children - this is your dad - go to your rooms, think about what you said and when you are ready come out and give each other a hug. Nuf said.

I may be wrong - so explain this - if a JPG file does not contain all the data a RAW file does how can you honestly call a JPG converted to RAW a real RAW file? Its like saying I only bought half the groceries on the list, but magically when I get home everything is in the bag.

Fine - Artist...

You see the world as you wish to see it therefore you make your own Heaven or Hell.

The camera is a tool - you make the photo great!

Do you not like the filter you have now?

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder" --Margaret Wolfe Hungerford

And to answer your question is to look to the young women of today and the expectations we put on them when it comes to their looks. To use a recent post as an example even Kate Upton does not look like Kate Upton in real life so how is she supposed to compete with her ideal self?

I agree beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but when every advertiser on the planet makes women into Barbies we end up with plastic versions of what we love.

Art is art and thank God for it, but reality is reality and we need to understand the difference.

Lets reverse your question and assume I am trying to commit fraud by using my cameras Date Time Stamp. So...how hard would it be to change it in the camera then take the photo? Just saying...

With the reviews being fairly close the question comes back to you. Have you used a Canon or Nikon before and if so what were your impressions? The Canon Nikon War will go on forever and makes good business competition, but ultimately all that matters is which one you feel comfortable with.

There may be several answers here: focus, movement and depth of field come to mind.

Focus sounds easy, but the answer may come down to how you are focusing. Are you using an overall pattern or spot focusing? If overall your camera may not be focusing where you would like it to. Change it to Spot and YOU will control where it focuses.

Movement is pretty obvious except when you are looking through a viewfinder. Basically the fix here to to advance your Shutter Speed. If it is really windy shoot as fast as your camera will allow.

And finally Depth of Field is another thought where the face of the flower may be in focus while the rest is not or even worse where the very front of the flower is not in focus, but rather just behind it ...
- Look off into the distance and notice how everything close up is out of focus - this is Depth Of Field

Please post if any of this helps

What you are asking cannot be done. RAW can be converted to JPG, but not the other way around.

I think however the better question is What Are You Trying To Do?

“Megapixels are a general guide to the size of the photo, as measured by the number of pixels it includes. Megapixels is a strong indicator of quality in the sense that it helps you know how large the photo can be safely printed - more megapixels equals a larger print - but it doesn't really tell you anything about the quality of the camera's sensor or its lens.

Megabytes tells you how much space a photo takes up on your hard drive, and has nothing to do with your camera's megapixels. The same photo, saved at different JPEG quality levels, will yield wildly different file sizes in megabytes.”

www.pcworld.com/article/240271/everything_you_want_to_know_about_megapixels_megabytes_and_dpi.html

To answer your question then, the file size is not an indication of File Size, but The Amount Of Noise where noise is determined by how much is going on in the photo. For example, as stated earlier, if you take a photo of a white wall versus a busy scene the file size for the same camera at the same settings will be tremendously different.

To answer even further, JPG files store Red, Blue and Green data and use a compression sequence to further reduce the amount of information being stored. For example if you think of a photo as RGBRRBGRRGGBB where R equals Red, etc. a JPG file uses a trick where it memorizes how many Rs are in this photo and in what order so it basically stores the file as RGB with the extra bits thereby making the file size very small.

JPG files loose some data, but are basically able to reproduce themselves pretty well with the net impact being the loss of color saturation, color range and sharpness. Conversely RAW files store everything the camera sensor sees leaving nothing behind with no sacrifice to image quality and therefore can be very large in nature.

The debate to shoot RAW vs. JPG is yours to decide where I will only suggest you shoot both and evaluate your needs and the differences of each, but if I may I will leave you with a question. If you were a painter and I gave you a choice between a box of crayons with three colors and a bit of memory or a box with every color under the Sun which would you choose?

What is the best advice you can give a new photographer?