RAW files are more saturated than JPEG a6500

[Carlo]

Hi,

 

Normally I only shoot video with my SONY a6500. But today I decided to make some pictures. A long time ago I set my photo settings to make a RAW and a JPEG at the same time when I take a picture. When I came home and I watched my photos, I saw my RAW files are a lot more saturated. They also have a lot more contrast. I am very afraid I can't edit my pictures good enough with this problem...

In this post I will put an example.

I hope someone can help me with this, I am very frustrated right now.

 

Kind regards,

Carlo

[Username]

It's just your RAW viewer. RAW files are far

more edit-friendly than jpegs. BTW you may

have your camera set to produce visually low 

impact jpegs which would increase the color 

and contrast difference that you describe.   

   

Read up on RAW files. 

[tinplater]

Hi,

 

Normally I only shoot video with my SONY a6500. But today I decided to make some pictures. A long time ago I set my photo settings to make a RAW and a JPEG at the same time when I take a picture. When I came home and I watched my photos, I saw my RAW files are a lot more saturated. They also have a lot more contrast. I am very afraid I can't edit my pictures good enough with this problem...

In this post I will put an example.

I hope someone can help me with this, I am very frustrated right now.

 

Kind regards,

Carlo

I had exactly the same problem.  Thanks to guidance here it became apparent that I was importing my RAW images as "Copy as DNG" in Lightroom.  As soon as I switched to "Copy" in the import dialog at top of screen, the RAW files were imported raw, not well done.

[LiveShots]

…the RAW files were imported raw, not well done.

 

 

I see what you did there…