T3i RAW

The last year of me owning my XTi I shot mostly RAW, did my adjustments in DPP and CS3 and was very impressed with the image quality vs. adjusting from a JPG.

I've owned my T3i for a few months now but have found that I'm able to get a better look from the finished product when I use a JPG. I've been finding that my RAW images (post adjustments) really lack punch and sharpness with the T3i.

My adjustments in DPP are WB, then usually I'll pick 'landscape', unsharp mask (usually 5, 1, 0), switch to photoshop and do minor adjustments there to levels, curve hue/saturation, and a little more unsharp mask, switch to 8-bit and save as JPG.

It's the same workflow I used to use with my XTi but I found those images really popped.

Does anyone else have this issue?

Well, for one thing the T3i has a stronger AA filter in front of the sensor and will probably need more sharpening. DPP's Landscape profile for the T3i might also not be as peppy as for the XTi. You have to treat every camera as a unique case and find the best workflow for it.

Shane, I don't have either of the cameras...

If you shoot Raw+jpeg, and bring the Raw into DPP, the Raw default preview should come quite close to the jpeg. Are you saying it doesn't?

tonylong wrote in post #14098185
Shane, I don't have either of the cameras...

If you shoot Raw+jpeg, and bring the Raw into DPP, the Raw default preview should come quite close to the jpeg. Are you saying it doesn't?

They look the same to start. After I do my processing I'm happier with the quality of the processed JPG's than my processed RAW's. It was the opposite case with my XTi. I may have to process a bit more like the previous poster mentioned to get the result I'm looking for. I'll give it a try this weekend.

Well, if "they look the same to start", then you are at the same "starting point", DPP can give you a conversion that is as good as the jpeg, but with Raw you always have the ability to make it better, but it sounds like the newer camera images will take different "tweaks".