Suggestion for all camera manuals -- what settings affect RAW images and RAW videos?

[pedz]

My suggestion can be deduced from the title.  I would like every still photo setting in a camera's manual to be marked explicitly that it does or does not have any effect on saved RAW images.  The same for all video settings.

I shoot raw still images almost exclusively.  Manuals today are 1000+ pages with many options.  It would save me time as well as make me feel more confident if each setting was marked somehow that it does or does not affect the RAW image that is ultimately saved onto the card.  There are some settings like  Picture Profile that I've been told does not affect the image saved on the card but it does affect how the image is displayed on the screen.  Pointing out that type of fact would also be welcomed.

Edit: Also, if a setting does not affect the RAW image saved on the card, then it would be great if those settings were disabled (greyed out) when the camera is currently set to save images just in RAW or CRAW.  A dialog could pop up if the user wants to change it explaining why it is greyed out as is done with other settings that are greyed out.

[pedz]

Thank you.  If that is true, then a simple statement where RAW and CRAW are first described would be sufficient.

Another question (slightly off topic).  What about the EXIF data?  I think white balance gets put into the EXIF data but I’m not sure.

[jrhoffman75]

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@pedz wrote:

Thank you.  If that is true, then a simple statement where RAW and CRAW are first described would be sufficient.

Another question (slightly off topic).  What about the EXIF data?  I think white balance gets put into the EXIF data but I’m not sure.

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I don’t know but all you have to do is look at the data from one of your images.

[Peter]

• $ Exiftool -all your_file.CR3 > saved_to_text_file.txt

If you use CMD in Windows, then write:

• Exiftool.exe -all your_file.CR3 > saved_to_text_file.txt

Change -all to -U to also get unknown tags.

https://exiftool.org/TagNames/Canon.html