Hello!
This question is not specific to Sigma, but since this forum is very active, I should have a response to something that has been bugging me for months!
From what I understand, photographing is RAW mode is the best since the end user has maximum flexibility of its final pictures. He can control every aspects of the picture, including colour saturation, contrast, sharpness, white balance... this last one is what I don't fully understand. Why do we have to select a white balance setting in the camera when shooting RAW if the idea is to do all the adjustments in a post-production software? Also, I always thought that a RAW picture was an unprocessed image, exactly what the sensor has captured. I made some test pictures selecting different white balance settings in the camera and shooting in RAW mode and the white balance of the pictures were all different. I understand that this in normal in JPEG mode since the camera applies settings to the pictures, but I was not expecting this for a RAW image. I guess I am missing something...
Thanks for any enlightenment!
Sébastien
This question is not specific to Sigma, but since this forum is very active, I should have a response to something that has been bugging me for months!
From what I understand, photographing is RAW mode is the best since the end user has maximum flexibility of its final pictures. He can control every aspects of the picture, including colour saturation, contrast, sharpness, white balance... this last one is what I don't fully understand. Why do we have to select a white balance setting in the camera when shooting RAW if the idea is to do all the adjustments in a post-production software? Also, I always thought that a RAW picture was an unprocessed image, exactly what the sensor has captured. I made some test pictures selecting different white balance settings in the camera and shooting in RAW mode and the white balance of the pictures were all different. I understand that this in normal in JPEG mode since the camera applies settings to the pictures, but I was not expecting this for a RAW image. I guess I am missing something...
Thanks for any enlightenment!
Sébastien