Have you seen d750 jpegs?

[jaomul]

I'm not trying to start a jpeg/raw debate. I know raw is technically the better format and I have shot raw since my first camera that would shoot raw.

I called to my friend this evening. We went on a trip earlier in the week. All I can say is he bought a d750 recently. That camera seems to do everything well. It also seems to have an excellent jpeg engine, better than my limited experience has seen, but if my camera did as well as his, I think I'd skip raw.

Is this camera better than the norm, is it this expeed processor thingy or am I just seeing better because I want it?

 

[goodguy]

Good question, never shot JPEG with my D750

 

[unpopular]

Shooting raw isn't primarily about quality, it's about control. Just as shooting JPEG isn't about laziness, it's about speed and convenience.

 

[D-B-J]

What's JPEG?

 

[PaulWog]

What's JPEG?

iPhone format.

 

[Derrel]

There isn't just one, single straight out of camera JPEG look on any modern Nikon--the cameras can all be set quite differently. If you max out a modern Nikon, you can get some incredibly clownish, over-baked color that looks utterly ridiculous! Go to the Picture Control menu, and set Standard, Neutral, or Vivid, or Custom, and inside each option, you can tweak sharpening, contrast,saturation, brightness, and hue. There is also Active D-Lighting and also Vignette control, plus white balance.

The way the SOOC JPEGs look is more a product of the user's settings than Nikon's settings.

There are people who want a rather flat tone curve and minimal saturation to the SOOC JPEG files, so they can later adjust them in software, and therefore do not want a lot "cooked in".

 

[Dao]

What's JPEG?

A J shaped Peg

http://media-cache-ec0.pinimg.com/736x/b7/97/ee/b797eec0b2eec428a513434f8dc9d75c.jpg

 

[AlanKlein]

My Olympus camera has a wonderful jpeg engine. The out-of-the-camera colors just seem nice often better than I can do if shooting RAW and doing post myself. As someone mentioned above, jpeg gives speed and convenience. And good quality. If you're using your photos to create a slide show of your vacation, Jpegs are usually good enough. If you're looking to message that special landscape into a 16"x24" print, than the latitude of RAW is the way to go. I usually shoot RAW + Jpeg so I can decide what to do later.


While I'm at it, I also shoot in P mode most of the time, sometime A mode unless there's a good reason to shoot manual. I know. Real men use manual exclusively and do all adjustments in post from RAWS. My theory is to concentrate on content. That's really the area that provides for good photography. RAW will improve a good picture. However, if your shot doesn't look good as a jpeg, RAW won't save it.

 

[Derrel]

This is a good article showing multiple different cameras, from P&S to expensive d-slr, and how varied the JPEGs coming out of a camera can appear with just a little tiny bit of user "action". Camera Adjustments

Again--there is no,one,single out of camera JPEG look from the D750. Nikon developed a comprehensive Picture Controls system, with default profiles, which are user-adjustable, and also custom settings banks, plus adjustable in-camera vignetting removal, and also in-camera Active D-Lighting, which is basically a high-contrast and or intense backlighting tone-mapping system that allows an in-camera JPEG to look good when the camera is shot toward really strong backlighting...which is probably the most challenging situation for in-camera JPEG shooters.

Here's an example of the Picture Controls Nikon developed a little under a decade ago. These controls match extremely closely across all of the new Nikons, like the D3 generation, D300, D4, Df, D800 generation, D600 generation, D700 generation, and the newer DX Nikon bodies as well.

Nikon D300 and D3 Picture Control Settings