How best to handle FZ200 RAW files? As simply as possible?

... is simply not possible. Either you bite the bullet and learn to use some grown-up program like Photoshop CS6 and/or Lightroom 4, or you go back to JPGs. Simple as that.

How would you use an FZ200 "as simply as possible"? You'd park it in iA, collect your JPGs, and be satisfied with that. In which case you might as well have bought something still simpler. Maybe an iPhone.

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