JPG vs BMP - color difference?

[Roscoe]

Something odd. Using my new 7Hi, I took a cool picture of a castle in RAW mode. When I got home I exported a bmp version to use as my desktop. I then exported a jpg version to email (same resolution). Looked at them both side by side and noticed the bmp had much more vivid colors than the jpg. Never noticed this before with other pics.

Is this common, that jpeg compression washes out colors, or is the Minolta software goobered up?

By the way...below is a link to the bmp. *I* think it's a cool pic.

http://mywebpages.comcast.net/dillon...Heidelberg.BMP