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Consider shooting raw only and optimizing your exposure for the raw file. If you shoot raw + JPEG with the intention of achieving a well-expose JPEG then your raw file is typically compromised and ...

This is a classic problem. Digital camera automated processing software can't get this one right. Go to Google and do an image search for knockout roses -- look at as many examples as you like -- ...

Regarding DOF you got an accurate answer from gollywop. Regarding bokeh, same lens then same bokeh. Here's a correct definition of bokeh: " In photography, bokeh (originally /ˈboʊkɛ/, /ˈboʊkeɪ/ ...

The shutter actuates once to take either raw only, JPEG only, or raw + JPEG. The JPEG is created from the raw file so only the one exposure is needed. If you save raw only the camera makes a JPEG ...

The above is not correct. Adobe's DNG converter does not convert X-Trans to Bayer. If you convert an RAF file to DNG the X-Trans CFA is preserved in the DNG file unconverted (not demosaiced). ...

No, you were correct in your original assumption. That was not a shot that required flash or HDR. All you needed was to take full advantage of the DR capacity of the camera's sensor. The raw file ...

You should have no problem getting this shot with the camera sans flash. What you need to do to take this photo is get a full sensor exposure. The raw file you posted is massively underexposed. ...

I don't have any action or handheld shots but here's an example of the X-T2 output at ISO 12K. https://www.dropbox.com/s/8b5xvvw3w942w2g/iso_12800.jpg?dl=0

This is what you need to do to take advantage of Iridient's demosaicing of the Fuji X-Trans CFA. What you're after is Iridient's demosaicing methods applied to the RAF file and then Lightroom's ...

White -- specifically a piece of white Styrofoam. I just cut rectangles from food trays and carryout containers and stick them in all my camera bags. White Styrofoam is a near perfect spectrally ...

Correct -- sensor light sensitivity is fixed. But as previously noted the sensor in the 100F is not ISO invariant. The earlier X-Trans II sensor was for all practical purposes ISO invariant. Using ...

Yep, I never save them -- haven't for many years now. Just a waste of card space.

ACR in PSE will allow you to save a 16 bit TIFF directly without moving the photo into Elements. Elements will open a 16 bit TIFF but most of it's editing functions won't work until the file is ...

Forgive me there. An RGB raster image is the same type of image as a JPEG but with the implication that it's not compressed. JPEGs are compressed using a wonderful technology that allows you to ...

You mean it's ability to process an RGB raster image. Not only do I save only raw files but there is no circumstance in which I would ever process or edit a JPEG. I teach photo to college and ...

OK -- I save only raw files and so all my photos have to be processed from the raw originals. That makes how the raw files are handled a critical concern for me.

No it doesn't and in fact you can't re-edit work done using the raw processing tools. If you decide there's a need to re-edit you have to start over from the beginning which totally sucks.

Affinity doesn't save the work you do with the raw processing tools once you develop the raw file into an RGB file. You can save the RGB file and continue to edit that but any work done with the ...

Nope -- refers to the current commercial version both MAC and WIN. Correct. You can save the RGB output in standard and proprietary (aphoto) formats and continue to edit that. You can NOT save the ...

Good: As a replacement for Photo Shop it's excellent and a steal at the price. Very good choice as a raster image editor. I'd say best PS clone to date. Bad: Keep all raw files away from it period. ...