Colors from RAW images look different than “raw” colors in real life and somehow… “ugly”. Of course these files needs post-processing so the colors of those will be better and life-like, but I think there is something about the camera, the sensor… so that RAW files look like that.
I’m looking forward to reading interesting explanations from you guys!
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It’s like raw carrots vs. cooked carrots in a soup. Raw is the ingredient, it can become anything you want if you’re willing to put in some extra work. The soup is a finished product, it tastes better, but its fate is already sealed, it can no longer become anything you want. So a pro chef would prefer to start with raw ingredients and cook them himself to his liking, but someone with less skill or less time might prefer to just buy finished carrot soup.
Recording a raw image simply means that the camera doesn’t do any post processing on the image so that this can be done later on a computer with more control. A raw image is not meant to look realistic or better or anything. You can, however, make it look better later if you have the right skills and taste, but that’s up to you, not the camera.
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