lmTrying wrote:
Sorry, I was not trying to make mountains.
I thought about going PM, but thought maybe someone else might learn from my mistakes.
Please correct me if I am wrong. To shoot raw, I can set shutter speed and aperture, but nothing else. Setting anything else like ISO or white balance puts me in jpeg. Correct?
User ID hot me straighten out on "both". So you can take my vote out of the survey.
No problem.
No, incorrect. RAW is a file format the camera can save. No "settings" are
applied to it. The settings are be applied to JPEGS (another save format for most cameras). Any difference one may see in an editor, which is simply a rendition of the RAW data, may be adjusted what your settings may have been. The RAW data itself is still the same, unaffected by the settings. The
visual display in the editor of the RAW data may be adjusted
in the editor display that one sees, but not the data itself. The settings used are also stored as part of the RAW data. That's how some editors "start" with creating the image your editor shows you, the editor may apply your settings when it creates your working view in the editor.
The white balance setting is used to create the JPEG in the camera, IF you save JPEGS.
Think of RAW as all the collected sensor
data only. It has to be interpreted (the data processed) by the editor in order for the editor to show you an image that you can work with. At that point it is NOT a JPEG you are viewing, but a
rendition of that data the editor created for you to see. (That's why an editor "save" option is "Save AS". That's when the editor does the conversion to JPEG, when saving the file. Cameras set to save JPEGS do the conversion IN THE CAMERA and save the JPEG file.
My RAW editor does a preliminary adjustment based on settings that the camera was set for. Some editors do not.
So what file format(s) do you have the camera save?