westr70 said:
This is an example of a in camera jpg. The feather detail is simply not there.
I agree that something is not right in that image.
DPP should work fine with raw images, its pretty self explanatory. You can just use it as a raw converter, and export files as tiff into lightroom or photoshop. The raw files are compressed tiff images, with the camera settings added, so there is no loss to send them to Lightroom.
I believe the 7D MK II also has in camera RAW editing, which may avoid some of the over processing done for standard jpegs.
So far, the images I've seen online look pretty comparable to other APS cameras, except that some brands do boost NR, colors, contrast, etc and that appeals to many coming from P&S bodies.