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<blockquote data-quote="WayneF" data-source="post: 493239" data-attributes="member: 12496">If you changed Image Quality from Raw to JPG, it will of course affect future images, but no previous images.&nbsp; You seem to know the answer, so I'm unsure if I understand the direction of your question.Raw file data is not affected by any camera setting other than exposure (shutter speed, aperture, and ISO, and Compensation).&nbsp;&nbsp; Camera profiles like Vivid or Monochrome, or white balance, or sharpening or contrast, do not affect the raw file data.&nbsp;&nbsp; Raw is raw.&nbsp;&nbsp; All such settings do affect JPG files however.Ifs and buts:All raw files also include a Large Jpg file embedded in them.&nbsp;&nbsp; The camera rear LCD (is RGB color) and cannot show a raw file, and also the Histogram is 8 bit gamma oriented, so they are shown from the embedded JPG.&nbsp; Plus this lets you zoom in to see magnified view on the camera rear LCD. So what you see on the rear LCD or histogram does have those settings in them.&nbsp; However, the image from the raw file will not, unless you add same settings later in raw. So if the settings are greatly wrong, you can see a wrong view on the rear LCD, but the raw image file data is not affected.&nbsp; In my own case, I set Auto WB just to see a halfway proper view on the LCD, which is actually unimportant, since I will handle it in raw later.&nbsp;&nbsp; BTW, we can download a Nikon codex for Windows that will show thumbnails from that embedded JPG in raw... but again, this is not the same as seeing the raw version.The Exif data in the raw file does show all those settings, even if the raw file data is not affected by them.The Nikon raw software can recover those settings from the Exif, and can apply them to the processing of the raw data.&nbsp;&nbsp; Other raw software don't/can't, but one exception is that Adobe raw software can recover the white balance info, offering it called &quot;As Shot&quot; White Balance.&nbsp; Of course, the overall point of raw is to defer these decisions until we can actually see the image, to KNOW what it needs, and what will help it.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="WayneF, post: 493239, member: 12496"] If you changed Image Quality from Raw to JPG, it will of course affect future images, but no previous images. You seem to know the answer, so I'm unsure if I understand the direction of your question. Raw file data is not affected by any camera setting other than exposure (shutter speed, aperture, and ISO, and Compensation). Camera profiles like Vivid or Monochrome, or white balance, or sharpening or contrast, do not affect the raw file data. Raw is raw. All such settings do affect JPG files however. Ifs and buts: All raw files also include a Large Jpg file embedded in them. The camera rear LCD (is RGB color) and cannot show a raw file, and also the Histogram is 8 bit gamma oriented, so they are shown from the embedded JPG. Plus this lets you zoom in to see magnified view on the camera rear LCD. So what you see on the rear LCD or histogram does have those settings in them. However, the image from the raw file will not, unless you add same settings later in raw. So if the settings are greatly wrong, you can see a wrong view on the rear LCD, but the raw image file data is not affected. In my own case, I set Auto WB just to see a halfway proper view on the LCD, which is actually unimportant, since I will handle it in raw later. BTW, we can download a Nikon codex for Windows that will show thumbnails from that embedded JPG in raw... but again, this is not the same as seeing the raw version. The Exif data in the raw file does show all those settings, even if the raw file data is not affected by them. The Nikon raw software can recover those settings from the Exif, and can apply them to the processing of the raw data. Other raw software don't/can't, but one exception is that Adobe raw software can recover the white balance info, offering it called "As Shot" White Balance. Of course, the overall point of raw is to defer these decisions until we can actually see the image, to KNOW what it needs, and what will help it. [/QUOTE]

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