For anyone wanting to achieve the best possible IQ there is only one way and that is shooting DNG and "develop". There is obviously more work involved because all raw files need to be "developed" using specialised software such as Photoshop or...
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Have a look at these two photos from a mobile phone. The first is a jpg straight from the camera. The other is a DNG from the camera, adjusted in a RAW-converter. The burnt out sky in the jpg is impossible to recover, but in the...