Xtrans - OOC Jpegs - Raw - Oh My!

nixda wrote:

Ok, I'll try again.

You are saying that the OOC JPEGs are more demanding of exposure and the various settings one can make'. More demanding than shooting in RAW, as far as I understand your post. But by shooting JPEG you are essentially limiting yourself, because you need to take the on-camera processing engine into account and what it might do to the data as captured, before taking the shot.

When you say (paraphrased) 'JPEGs are more demanding with respect to exposure', you indicate that it happens (occasionally/sometimes/often) that the JPEG engine creates a suboptimal image whereas you can get a proper image from the RAW file.

When you consider RAW to be more 'forgiving', you imply that you could commit 'sins', so to say, when shooting in RAW and get away with it. What I am saying is that shooting in RAW does not allow to commit sins either, and that you in fact haven't committed any sins when the RAW file encodes a proper image, despite the fact that the JPEG engine might not be able to create that proper image. There is nothing to forgive if the RAW file gives you a proper image. You made a successful exposure.