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Originally Posted by Neeper
What kind of settings do you have on your camera in the settings menu? Do you have stuff like contrast bumped, custom curves, in camera sharpening, d-lighting turned on? For me, I basically put everything at zero. I shoot only raw, in fact, I haven't shot jpg for many years. I prefer to do it stuff in post than SOOC. Maybe the jpgs, once all compressed down, looks less "RAW" because the camera finished the image? And the RAW looks really raw because its not compressed?
Getting the exposure dead on or close to it would really help as well. How are your exposures SOOC?
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I use the dpreveiw.com recommendations for the D90: sharpening is bumped up, everything else is default. d-lighting is typically on auto, though I do set it manually sometimes as well.
I understand that the the jpegs should look better than an unprocessed raw because the camera is doing the processing (and it does a pretty good job), my problem is that the jpegs often look better than the processed raws (either because I'm not very good at processing, or because Nikon has better engineers than Adobe).
As far as exposure goes... when I botch the exposure, that's when the RAWs tend to look better than the JPEGs. It's when I don't that the camera seems to do a better job than anything I can do in Lightroom.