: >If you save raw, is there any real benefit to bracketing? (by only : >1/3 stop that is). : : Well, I sure can see the difference and if something's blown out you : have to screw with the entire image's color balance to adjust for it : in RAW. they've a better explanation here: http://www.luminous-landscape.com/tutorials/understanding-series/u-raw-file s.shtml "Saving the Raw file If you are saving raw files the camera creates a header file which contains all of the camera settings, including (depending on the camera) sharpening level, contrast and saturation settings, colour temperature / white balance, and so on. The image is not changed by these settings, they are simply tagged onto the raw image data. This raw image data, what the imaging chip recorded along with the so-called meta-data (the camera settings and other technical information) is now saved to the card. Some cameras compress these files, others don't. In any event if they are compressed it is done losslessly so that there is no deterioration of the file due to compression artifacts. (Some companies, Nikon and Kodak specifically, use a slightly lossy compression algorithm when saving raw files" k
