

Note, the image that appeared on your LCD screen is a JPG. A RAW image is just that, there is no editing done by the camera, that is for YOU to do so when you look at your RAW image it will always appeat to be flat. When you take a JPG the camera applies editing to whatever it deems necessary but it isn't always correct. AMAZING DIFFERENCE!! Images are incredibly crisp! This is what I expected from a 24 megapixel camera! The smaller size image has a four times better SNR! The image quality is so good it can easily be up sampled back to the 24 megapixel size and still have the benefit of the improved SNR and dramatically improved image quality!!Īlcatraz, your statement about RAW are inferior than JPG. Yep, cut the image size down to 13.5 megapixels in the camera settings. The obvious solution reduce the number of pixels.


Poor SNR.hmmm, probably caused by packing way too many sensor sites on to a comparatively small sensor array chip.
PHOTOGRAPHY NIKON D3200 ISO
So I started playing around with the settings and learned a lot! First the RAW image format is poorer quality than the jpeg 'fine' images, with (unbelievably) compression artifacts at ISO 400! Aren't Raw images supposed to be uncompressed? Not in Nikon's D3200 cameras! So step #1, don't use RAW format at high ISO. The problem seemed to be that the signal to noise ratio in the image sensor was marginal. I bought a D3200 a few days ago and was very disappointed in the quality of the images it was producing. I just want more detail in my images! You might be able to make more of it. As a matter of interest I will copy the comment that gave me this tip. This one factor has really made a difference to my shots. Beg to differ that downsizing image size does not alter the amount of detail. The images below were taken on the new setting. Hope this tip might help other D3200 users. But I am more than happy with the results. OK, it's still not as sharp as the better Canon and Nikon lenses. The results are like chalk and cheese from where I was a few weeks ago. I was already shooting with the Sigma lens set at 450mm as it is very soft at 500mm. Yes, less megapixels to get a better result. So I did some more research and found a comment on a US forum where another D3200 owner said he had changed his size setting from large to medium. Didn't seem to improve the images, which I think were OK. I was already using the large format and went to Raw + fine.
PHOTOGRAPHY NIKON D3200 PROFESSIONAL
For several months a played around with settings and eventually a professional photographer mate of mine told me to use the biggest settings possible for the image size. I soon realised that I needed a longer and lens and bought a Sigma 150 -500mm lens, which I am quite happy with as it allows me to pursue my bird photography passion without a great outlay. It came with a standard 18 -55 mm lens and a 55 - 300 mm lens. I bought a near-new Nikon D3200 in about June last year.
