Why One Raw File Can Contain Several Photographs

You press the shutter once. A raw file can contain more than one admissible photograph, and the camera shows you only the version it chose. You shot the scene once, but the digital file came back with several photographs inside it. You have seen one: the JPEG preview the screen handed you when the button went down. The others are in the same file, equally valid, equally yours, and most photographers discard them without ever knowing they were there.That is not a processing tip. It changes