RAW and JPEG are two answers to the same question — what should the camera write to the card when you press the shutter — and the answers look very different at the bit level. We walk what each file actually contains, the in-camera pipeline that bridges them, why white balance and tone curves are "settings" on JPEG and "metadata" on RAW, and the honest case for each format in different situations.
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RAW vs JPEG