>> ... *before*. The common thought previously was that RAW provided
>> unaltered A/D data of the sensor. That may or may not have been true, but
>> at least it *could* have been. Now with truncation necessary, it *cannot*
>> be true that a RAW file contains unaltered digitzed sensor data.
>
> You seem to believe that putting a 22-bit digital signal processor in the
> data path somehow affects the need for truncation of the data from the
> sensor. That isn't true. Either the sensor+ADC combination is capable
> of delivering more than 12 bits of signal (in which case truncation will
> be necessary somewhere), or it isn't.
>
Of course it doesn't. What it *does* allow for is a different
gain for the three different channels for wider dynamic range. That
"gain" is a function of settings like colorspace and white balance.
-Cory
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