Thanks Graham, I am glad you enjoyed it. You are absolutely right. A raw file is a file and not a picture and the preview we see is a JPEG. I have a blog post all about raw here: https://ivorphotography.co.uk/raw/

Excellent piece as always .

Capture One Express is free …and excellent ! But targeted at Fuji and Sony users .

Also Apple Photos bundled in with Apple machines is a very very good at cataloguing…not great for editing but allows you to ‘hand off’ the edit to other editors . Smart Albums and batch titling I’m Apple Photos is great . AP handles uncompressed raw files really very very well . I’m on the latest Mac operating system Mojave .

Not sure if it is appropriate to mention alongside ‘editing ‘ but ……everything we see in our camera ..live view , histogram and in mirrorless evf is jpeg . There is no camera that exists that can display ‘raw’ ..raw is merely data . So when we look at an image in ‘playback in camera we only see the jpeg version but the raw will have much more information . In particular the histogram we see ‘in camera ‘ is a jpeg histogram the raw histogram shown in the editor will be different . .

Thanks again