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'.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.Photographers often view their work as a form of art, and artists are very particular about even the smallest details of their work.Why, then, would Nikon, Canon, and especially Leica, not have their own definable standards of how to process RAW photos for their particular cameras?