Originally posted by Kunzite So the technical expertise deciding that K-1 Mark II is no good can be resumed to two words: "baked" and "massaged".
I'm not certain what the definition of "baked" is. Some Nikon cameras have several different sizes of NEF {their so-called raw} files; I figure some kind of processing must be involved {this is a menu choice on the camera}, but no one is willing to address the issue. Does "baked" cover processing after data leaves the sensor? In that case, is processing performed by the sensor itself excluded? And how is "processing" defined? Would putting resistors and/or capacitors in the data path be a form of "baking"? What about more "active" components?
When the 8088/8086 {heart of a PC} were first developed, their instruction code had more instructions than could be implemented on a separate integrated circuit, so Intel {their developer} came up with two "co-processors" - the 8087 intercepted and performed floating-point arithmetic, and the 8085 intercepted and performed esoteric data-management operations; the latter was never used as far as I know, but as electronics progressed, the former was included in the 80386 and later units.
When talking about electronics, one can be casual or one can be a legalist. I look at the results.