What does an unprocessed RAW file look like?
The author notes that 'But, there is no such standard...[a]ll real-world RAW processing programs have their own ideas of a basic default state to apply to a fresh RAW file on load'.<p>While I can accept that there isn't a universal RAW -> RGB standard, it seems strange to me that 'compute how this photo should appear' is left as an exercise as a reader.<p>Photographers often view their work as a form of art, and artists are very particular about even the smallest details of their work.<p>Why, then, would Nikon, Canon, and especially Leica, not have their own definable standards of how to process RAW photos for their particular cameras?