Pixelpuffin wrote:
I never shoot raw…ever
I’m curious about peaking. I find that shooting mono makes peaking much easier to see than when shooting colour. But I’m then forever stuck with a mono JPEG
Am I correct in thinking if I shot both raw & jpeg but the jpeg’s were set to mono, that would give both EVF and rear screen a mono image but the raw could if needed be turned back to colour.
I’m away at the moment and don’t have the opportunity to check, but the question has been playing on my mind and I thought best to ask here.
Anyone??
As a general rule, camera settings like choosing monochrome or setting an aspect ratio crop do not affect the raw file data.
The proprietary raw file will include information about what settings were used, and if your raw conversion software recognizes them it may use that as the starting point when you open the file in the raw converter… but the full underlying raw data (color, for example) is still there.
So, yes, if you shoot in raw+jpg mode, your raw fill will retain all of the original exposure data… in color.
One little warning about peaking. The peak reading is most likely based on an average of the luminosity in the three color channels. The danger is that if one channel is “hot” it ma not show a peak even though that channel could get blown out. You see this frequently with subjects that have a hot red channel, such as fall foliage, sunsets, and similar. Even though your basic histogram may look OK, you may find that you lose details in the image where the hot color predominated.
Apr 27, 2026 at 09:41 AM
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