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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Horoscope Fish" data-source="post: 304329" data-attributes="member: 13090">Well I was the one asking if you had bumped up the Sharpening setting in your camera if you were shooting JPG. It's one of those things I suggest a lot because it makes a huge impact on the image quality of JPG's. As has already been pointed out, though, those settings (e.g. Sharpening) do not get applied to RAW files. The data for those settings is stored in the EXIF data and some applications like Nikon's View NX2 software can read that data and apply it, but RAW photos do not get processed like JPG's do. Reiterating yet again, the image you see on the LCD on the back of your camera is a JPG file even if you're shooting RAW only. Having to sharpen RAW files as part of your post-processing workflow is normal and expected. RAW files always look flat and dull to me, as well as soft, before I begin post-processing them; but that's just the nature of the beast. At any rate, I know from a good amount of first-hand experience that the D3200 is quite a capable little camera. My girlfriend shot one using little more than a 35mm f/1.8G for a long time and the image quality of her shots was routinely superb. Then too, she's not half bad at navigating Photoshop, either...Anyway... Here's hoping you've managed to find satisfaction with *your* D3200!...</blockquote>