Ysarex
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Slide film has the same problem that SOOC JPEGs have. It's far more limited in what it can handle without an ability to address parts of the image locally. We had the same dichotomy before digital with slide versus negative film. In the darkroom you can dodge a shadow or burn a highlight. When printing color negatives I used to dodge and burn with color filters. Back up 30 years and load one camera with slide film and the other with negative film and you can't use both to successfully capture all the same images. What the slide film can handle is a subset of what the negative film can handle. Where the slide film will blow diffuse highlights the negative film will record them and let you burn them in.If you like to do straight out of the camera SOOC pictures, just shoot slide film and project the slides.
That's a non-issue for someone taking photos in a light-controlled studio, but for someone taking found photos out in the world of random lighting conditions it's sometimes the difference between you can take the photo or you can't.
This recurring topic of SOOC photos often brings up the term get it right in camera. But for that photo above of the park, editing or not there never was a get it right in camera option as the camera's available tools can't get it right. There often is no get it right in camera option. What then? Settle for get it wrong in camera or get nothing?
Another thread running through this topic is the "true to reality" idea that somehow SOOC images are unaltered and so faithful renditions of what the photographer saw. That is a bogus idea. Intermittent reinforcement provides powerful support for faulty thinking. An SOOC image in which the lighting condition is a good match for the camera's toolset can produce an image faithful to what the photographer saw. But only when the lighting condition is a good match for the camera's toolset. Otherwise as in the park photo above it's the SOOC photo that fails to capture what the photographer saw.