a clear RAW/jpEg difference Editing results compared
In this shot, taken at the door of an old church in Cartagena, Colombia, the exposure was set for the exterior, but as shot the interior is almost featureless, concealing the important detail of the bell-ringer. This can be pulled out in RAW processing, but see what happens when exactly the same processing (namely local adjustments with a Graduated Filer and three Radial Filters), is applied to the JPEG: there just isn’t the range of information in the file to work on.