Re: Why many settings arguments don't matter with RAW

Paul Furman <paul-@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I believe WB does effect the RAW capture. It's probably not real
critical in most cases but it's like EC for different colors and will
reduce or increase the data captured to have WB set correctly. This is
why Nikon was trying to encrypt their WB although it's not that
important, the RAW converter can guess the intended WB or an operator
can chose it manually.


I don't believe this to be the case. The RAW data is what it is. Changing
temperature is simply an algorithm applied during post processing.

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