Raw for Low Light
Using the Raw format for shooting is now the professional standard in almost all kinds of photography (news, sports, and when fast delivery overrides post-production are the notable exceptions to this rule).
Its two most outstanding benefits are first that it preserves the capture data separate from whatever settings were applied at the time of shooting, so allowing color temperature, for example, to be chosen later. Second, it can record a wider dynamic range than other formats.
Given the typically major shifts of color from one scene to another in low light photography, and the fact that they are often unpredictable, the settings-change features alone make the Raw format almost essential. Most digital photographers are by ...
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