Re: what is editing and what is adjustment ?
Understand what you are sayingBarry, no problems there
. There is a huge difference in Shooting Jpeg and RAW files.
Just to clarify camera phones etc shoot in Jpeg for one reason Jpeg files have less data in them than a RAW file if a camera has that in its menu.
This means that with editing one can extract more out of a photo with a RAW file.
now others may laugh but let them
The way I try and get those not into photography to understand the difference is one should think of it like a sheet of glass = Data. As an analogy
With Jpeg you can see the top layer sheet (Data) only which has colours on it. So one can only do so much alteration on that sheet of glass allows.
With RAW using the sheet of glass analogy
Each colour to make up the picture is on several layers of glass to make the whole picture.
This way RAW files can pick out individual sheets "Data" each with a separate colour on it and alter just that single one. By this method each sheet can be "edited" to get the best from each one and therefore making the picture far better when reassembled.
Don't know if that makes sense. Photographers will poo poo it, but i have not posted this for photographers but to try and help those who don't know what the difference is in very simple terms
Therefore with a RAW file a lot more editing data is available to work with
I know I have been shouted down many times saying this but to my simple mind it helps in understanding
My Camera, like many other ones can shoot in both formats RAW and Jpeg as they have 2 memory cards and any combination is available