Which Camera Settings Affect RAW Photos?

[Trailblazer]

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[Mark Keefer]

Good and useful info to share., I found the part about sRGB and AdobeRGB most informative for me. I work with RAW. Thanks for the info.

 

[Ken Katz]

Even if you shoot RAW, some settings that don't effect the RAW file may impact how you adjust your camera. If you use a mirrorless camera and do set it to show highlight and shadow clipping or a live histogram, the levels at which they show clipping may be impacted by the camera's contrast and image style setting. On my Olympus MILCs, I set the Picture Mode to "Muted" and dial down Contrast and Saturation a bit. This is so that clipping indicators are not likely to show clipping when the Raw file is not actually going to be clipped.

 

[Papa Tango]

There seems to be a bit of difference depending upon the brand. Sony is a bit different from Fuji, which are still different from Canon.

 

[Ken Katz]

Each camera manufacture may treat this differently, but the live view on your EVF and/or rear screen are generated from rendered JPEGs. If those rendered JPEGs utilizes the picture style and/or contrast and saturation settings, it certainly would make me think that the clipping indicators are also produced from that JPEG. Unless your camera manual (or technical service query) says otherwise, I would probably lower the JPEG contrast to get a more accurate clipping warning for RAW files.

 

[Mark Keefer]

Looks like I am going to being doing some reading on my cameras. I have my Canon camera set on neutral and one notch under exposed and shoot raw in full manual except for auto iso. Usually works well to avoid clipping. .As far as liveview, for me, used when remote shooting so not a lot of doing that and under very controlled conditions or at night for astro photography. I will need to do some reading up on the display effect on histogram display and the same on the Sony.