ABSTRACT
Shooting RAW Virtually every publication these days expounds the virtues of shooting RAW. Regardless of your camera brand, virtually all DSLRs have the capability to record unprocessed data captured by the camera’s sensor. Each camera manufacturer has its own RAW le format. With Nikon the le extension is NEF (Nikon Electronic Format), Canon has two formats CRW (Canon RAW Format) and CR2 (Canon RAW 2nd edition), but in principle, they all work in the same way. One of the advantages of shooting RAW is that it gives you the maximum amount of information possible and
in an unprocessed state; this allows you to make individual changes to various aspects within the le, such as exposure, White Balance, contrast, saturation and much more in a non-destructive way. RAW also allows you to record a much wider range of brightness levels compared to a JPEG le. What is meant by this is the amount of tonal range from the darkest shadows to the brightest highlights within an image. e range of tonal value that a le is capable of displaying is termed its bit depth level.
