In message ,
"Ryadia@Home" wrote:

RichA wrote:
http://www.luminous-landscape.com/essays/raw-flaw.shtml

I'll offer a more realistic, less dramatic scenario.

You shoot RAW as most do. Then you convert that RAW data - because
that's all it is at that time - to an image format. In the case of a
Canon the best choice is TIFF but there are others.

Now you have an editable "image" file with all the detail of the
original image in it and capable of being processed further in just
about any image editor know to man at this time.

No, you don't.

The only way a TIFF can carry all of the original RAW data is if the
TIFF has the RAW values, non-demosaiced, non-white-balanced, and the
black pixels as well, at their original values, or multiplied by an
integer.

Bloody sensationalist bull **** is all that comes out of that site.

Douglas

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John P Sheehy