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Matt, I don’t do any in-camera sharpening, I simply shoot RAW.
When shooting RAW, the only parameters set in concrete when you press the shutter release are the shutter speed, lens aperture and film speed (ISO). So, when you transfer the RAW files to your PC for processing, you can optimally adjust other parameters such as white balance, saturation, levels, curves, sharpening, noise, on the full RAW data to get the result you want.
When shooting JPGs, the camera “bakes” in the “recipe” in-camera and this leaves you less “processing space” and flexibility when using image processing applications such as Photoshop.
RAW is like leaving the recipe ingredients un-baked, so you can then adjust the quantities in PS and bake several “different” cakes from the one RAW file to suit your taste.
Having said all of that, if you’re just taking happy snaps on a day’s outing, it might be worth just shooting JPG’s as you will not have the processing and conversion overheads at the computer.
Cheers
Dennis
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