CHG_CANON wrote:
Your RAW images always look flat, lack contrast, lack sharpening, lack lens corrections, and lack noise processing. The only way they can "look" different is because you're viewing them with a digital editor that applies some of these processing controls against the RAW image. That's a simple reality of RAW.
If you open a Nikon NEF into the Nikon software, it will pick-up the camera settings, including the picture control and will display that processed version of the image.
If you open a Canon CR2/CR3 into the Canon DPP software, it will pick-up the camera settings, including the picture style and will display that processed version of the image.
If you import any camera's RAW file into Adobe Lightroom, Adobe provides a default amount of sharpening and noise reduction and applies the Adobe Standard profile to the image. These are minor changes, easily undone / changed, but also no longer present the raw RAW file.
We have no video tape of your life nor examples of the images you see, so we can't say exactly which applies to your prior observations.
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Very informative. Thanks.