Since the raw file is not an image file, can you visualize apicture in your camera after shooting it, as you do with a JPEGpicture?.

Yes..

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Wrong, the preview on the LCD screen of the camera is the jpeg preview of the raw file. Yes you can view your shot but it is not the actual RAW file.Photography and Graphic DesignPortfolio - http://www.atlanticexpressinc.comPrints - http://www.atlanticexpressions.com..

Djbahdow wrote:.

Wrong, the preview on the LCD screen of the camera is the jpegpreview of the raw file. Yes you can view your shot but it is notthe actual RAW file..

That's correct but may be confusing. I think the question was just 'can you see the photo on the camera', to which the answer is still yes. No, the camera isn't a RAW editor, but you can still check focus, exposure and composition, and flick through the photos you've taken..

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Very true but you also have to remember that when you move to RAW for PP in Capture NX or Photoshop ACR you will not have the sharpening, or other tweaks that happen in jpeg. There you can play with it and the jpeg preview doesn't give you the exact RAW file.Photography and Graphic DesignPortfolio - http://www.atlanticexpressinc.comPrints - http://www.atlanticexpressions.com..

You will have most of the jpeg tweaks, if AUTO is turned on in your converter. the converter will pickup the tags imbedded in the raw file...

As the I seem to have omitted enough info ( apologies ) I'll try and answer..

Yes you can see the RAW shots in playback mode. The camera will give you the image it would have produced with the camera settings it recorded with the RAW file. Unless you explicitly used RAW+JPEG mode ( if you have one ) the JPEG itself cannot be accessed from the RAW - just that a preview of it. If you used RAW+JPEG then I would expect both the RAW and the JPEG would normally be available in playback..

I think a few cameras ( some DSLRs ? ) do support some editing of the image ( e.g. tone curve ). Post processing is always better done on a proper application than in these systems - they simply lack the fine control required IMO..

Occasionally a shot you take in RAW may, in playback, be signaled as over-exposed. This is not always the case - it is telling you the processed JPEG it produced was overexposed, not (always) the RAW. If you are confident your exposure was correct, don't panic at the sight of this. A little practice will give you confidence in your exposure settings..

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