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I'm I to understand that if I shoot in RAW format, that any setting for white balance, exposure compensation etc.. will not take affect?

David

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G'day David that's partially correct.

Any 'in camera' settings you apply, like sharpening, contrast, hue, saturation etc, affect only non RAW controls.

Manual exposure, aperture, shutter speed, focus settings etc apply to all shots taken, whether RAW or JPEG

Whitebalance is taken into account in all modes, RAW or jpeg etc, but if you were shooting RAW and selected 'tungsten' WB accidentally for example, you could correct this in appropriate post software without degradation of the image, whereas if you'd shot jpeg, you'd be affecting thie image quality the more you adjust and perhaps still not get the desired result.

RAW is the 'native' data - whatever the sensor captures, so you get 'everything' on tap and everything is therefore adjustable, and you can think of JPEG as retaining only what you've told the camera to retain, and all the other data is lost.

Hope that helps.

Graham

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Yes, slowly getting a handle on digital photography, thanks Graham.

David

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