Xtrans - OOC Jpegs - Raw - Oh My!

abelits wrote:

That's the worst hair-splitting argument I have seen in at least a week.

The fact is, photographers and auto-exposure algorithms occasionally mis-judge exposure, so one, indeed, expects that some pictures will have somewhat wrong exposure. I do not know if this counts as a "sin" according to whatever moral standards programmer may have, but it's certainly undesirable yet common.

When this happens, and photographer taken a RAW image, he can adjust processing to compensate, and for some, common range of such error in exposure, he will end up with a good image.

When this happens, and photographer taken a JPEG image, the room for adjustment is very narrow, and he may not be able to get acceptable image even if he would if he taken a RAW image instead of JPEG, all other conditions and mistakes being equal.

That's what is commonly described as "JPEG is less forgiving", as far as exposure is concerned. Details and filtering just add to this.