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The lens 'sees' only light.Maybe I'm misunderstanding what RAW files are? I was under the impression that the file is basically exactly what the lens "sees" in exactly the natural conditions. If that's the case, then these photos could totally be saved. Am I misunderstanding what RAW files are?
That light hits the sensor and is turned into a digital signal/info. That info is what the RAW file contains.
Before the light gets to the sensor, it has to pass through the aperture and the shutter. The shutter speed and the aperture control the exposure (the amount of light)....so if you don't have the right amount of light, the RAW information won't be what you want it to be.
If you were shooting in JPEG (instead of RAW) the information goes to the camera's processor and get's processed before it's saved to the card. When we shoot in RAW, we skip that that step and take the in-camera processing out of the equation. That's why we shoot RAW.