White Balance, Color Space and other camera settings that don't affect 'RAW'

Some of the settings that are recommended to be set in-camera actually have no effect on the data captured by the sensor. Most of it is just metadata that either gets discarded, or used willy-nilly.

Colour space setting, creative style (saturation, contrast, sharpness), white balance setting, have no effect on the data that's captured into the camera-native data file.

Related video where I talk more about "RAW" files:
   • [Darktable] Broken 'Pink' highlights and h...  

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Video segments:
00:00 - 02:43 Camera-native RAW files and various settings
02:43 - 03:46 Testing out the theory
03:46 - 06:57 Confirming results with Darktable

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