tashley
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Just to be clear: opening the raw file in LR, OR in Capture One, or in anything else, is effectively 'developing' it. They all apply their own blend of profiling and noise reduction and so on, all of which you can then change. But there is no such thing as an 'out of the camera' RAW file other than as input fodder for a demosaicing algorithm. In terms of what you, as a human, can actually get a visual on, it doesn't exist - unless you read code... It's really important to understand that LR or anything else is making just as many decisions about how the file looks to you as the camera does when it spits out a JPEG. The only difference is that the RAW file still contains options, and the raw developer lets you exercise them with a degree of flexibility denied you by a JPEG file.Thank you Tashley:
What I meant was that I open them in Lightroom, and beyond cropping, I prefer not to do much of anything else. It's Open, Maybe Crop, and that's it...