It's true that the camera does some noise reduction as well as some sharpening, depending on your camera settings, but from what you describe in zooming in with the LCD, the jpegs have those same "issues". Then, when looking at an image at that close magnification, whether the in-camera LCD view of the built-in jpeg, or an out-of-camera jpeg, or a Raw image in Raw processing software, the 100% magnification will show the fine details as captured, which also means that it will show any "issues", such as image noise or slight focus problems, fully magnified so that they will be very noticeable. Our "normal"/typical monitors are, typically, in the area of 100 dpi (display "dots" per inch) so we are viewing images at approximately 100 ppi (pixels per inch). A 100% zoom simply means that your viewing software "maps" you image to your monitor, with one image pixel being shown by one monitor "pixel"/spot. But zooming in is a totally different matter. Second, the "dpi"/ppi figure has nothing to do with viewing your image in your software, unless you use the software to view using that "tag". Well, first off, if you say that when you zoom in completely with the camera LCD the images look grainy/blurry, then that actually has nothing to do with Raw/jpeg, because the image that you are looking at is actually what would be the out-of-camera jpeg, not the actual Raw "data". Where can I upload RAW images for you to preview? Manually sharpening seems to make the grain/noise even more noticeable. Any dpi more than that and it's all blurry. If I change them to something like 72, then I can zoom in to 100% and they're ok. If I'm COMPLETELY zoomed in as far as possible on camera, then I start seeing some grain/blurryness. The images look fine and sharp on the back of the camera, even if I zoom in a bit. Wildlife project pics here, Biking Photog shoots here, "Suburbia" project here ! Mount St. Since you are apparently new to the world of Raw, I'd suggest you start with DPP, in fact, with DPP the in-camera settings are used so that your initial Raw preview will be pretty much the same image as the out-of-camera jpeg, and you can use that to get a quick Convert and Save for a jpeg to use! For example, you could upload a Raw file so that we could download it and look at it, and as well you could post one of your jpegs that you converted from the Raw file that show this "problem", post the whole shot (downsized for the Web) and then post a 100% crop that shows the actual fine detail, and be sure that you post the shooting Exif (shutter speed, aperture and ISO) and also any details about your shooting approach that could be pertinent - for example, how were you focusing? I'll repeat a key question: what ISO were you shooting at?Īside from that, it's hard for us to say without more, well, "something". I've spent 3 ENTIRE days and nothing is working!! Redoing the shoot isn't an option, as they live in another state and have already gone home!! I'm so frustrated and to the point that I'm about willing to PAY someone to edit and convert them for me. I have never had a blurry/grainy issue shooting in JPEG, and don't have a clue as to what I need to do to salvage these RAW files!! I am at a total loss on how to edit RAW files. I even tried converting them to JPEG on the Canon Photo Professional thing that came with my camera, and they STILL are blurry and grainy. I've tried batch editing them and converting to JPEG and they still look the same. When I zoom to 100%, they are super grainy and blurry. I opened the RAW files in Photoshop Elements, and when the files are at say, 11%, the images look totally fine. I didn't realize the camera got changed to RAW until I tried opening the photos and found I couldn't preview them in Windows. My brother and family were in town and had me do a family shoot for them. (Yes, I'm still a processing newbie and shoot in JPEG) So my daughter was messing with my camera and changed the settings from JPEG to RAW.
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