It's better to think of RAW as pure data, just like infrared telescope capture data needs transformation to be displayed on a screen.
Displaying raw as-is means clipping the data to some range, which is a transformation in itself (and a pretty bad one).
It's better to think of RAW as pure data, just like infrared telescope capture data needs transformation to be displayed on a screen.
Displaying raw as-is means clipping the data to some range, which is a transformation in itself (and a pretty bad one).