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<blockquote data-quote="MeSess" data-source="post: 298615" data-attributes="member: 21237"><p>I think you're confusing what a RAW file actually is. White balance etc. has already been applied in camera when you took the photo. Whatever settings you had set in camera that has been applied to the RAW file. Nikons RAW file format is called NEF and all this means is that it is exactly what your camera took with no data loss. The file has not been compressed in any form and contains all of the original information from when you took the picture and this includes white balance, exposure, contrast, saturation etc. What you do in post processing is not adding this stuff to the image, but instead, correcting for any errors that you made in camera when the picture was taken. This is why not all pictures need to be processed. You do not have to post process a RAW file if it is to your liking. However, when converting to JPEG there will be data loss. There can be very little data loss if you convert to a high quality JPEG or a lot of data loss if it's low quality.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="MeSess, post: 298615, member: 21237"] I think you're confusing what a RAW file actually is. White balance etc. has already been applied in camera when you took the photo. Whatever settings you had set in camera that has been applied to the RAW file. Nikons RAW file format is called NEF and all this means is that it is exactly what your camera took with no data loss. The file has not been compressed in any form and contains all of the original information from when you took the picture and this includes white balance, exposure, contrast, saturation etc. What you do in post processing is not adding this stuff to the image, but instead, correcting for any errors that you made in camera when the picture was taken. This is why not all pictures need to be processed. You do not have to post process a RAW file if it is to your liking. However, when converting to JPEG there will be data loss. There can be very little data loss if you convert to a high quality JPEG or a lot of data loss if it's low quality. [/QUOTE]

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