My only disagreement with you is the last part of your post.
"It all depends upon what the photographer wants and is trying to achieve, and the compromises required to shoot DNG in the first place (think frame rate) , and whether the editing...
Yes. I did.
Yes, I did. Again I was talking on behalf of the person who said that a quote: "16 bit RAW file has 65000 information to work with" and I said that that generic statement was close to being accurate. There are not many cameras which...
I guess what he meant to say was that 16bit raw file has approximatelly 65 000 (65,536 to be exact) steps of color per channel whereas 8 bit file such as your typical JPEG has only 256 steps per channel. That would be more or less correct.
It is the perspective of the 28mm lens not where the flyer put the camera what's creating the perception of the shots lacking depth. The wider the lens thus more encompassing, especially in constrained spaces like this, the more dramatic the...