Uuglypher wrote:
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Hi, jmcD,
Here's another "take" on the " jpg -RAW comparison" that some of my students and workshop participants have found useful:
The RAW data collected by your camera at exposure is not an image data file comparable to the JPEG file that your camera selects, copies, and "cooks down" from that original, inviolate sack of RAW data.
The 12 bit or 14 bit "RAW FILE" your camera delivers is simply a guarantee that that sack o' RAW data can be repeatedly "worked" by the RAW converter of your choice to come up up with a practically unlimited number of raw versions/ interpretations in a 16-bit environment , each with multiple thousands more options of interpretation than posessed by that little 8-bit RAW file that,admittedly, doesn't look too bad straight-out-of-camera (SOOC) but which is served up as a small "medium-well-done" hamburger rather than with all the glorious inate potential of a whole side of RAW U.S.D.A. Prime beef that never looses weight as new entrès are prepared from it!
Damn...now I'm hungry...salivating...prime rib, please -medium rare!
Dave in SD
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Thanks for info Uuglypher......