With all due respect Andrew, I began my professional photographic career over 47 years ago shooting action sports on Kodachrome 25/64 ... I think I have ample understanding about exposure and how it works.
As I stated before ... in this instance, it's a non issue.
With all due respect, I began my professional photo career
prior to graduating from a very good photo school by shooting the 1984 Olympics, on film. As one of only 50 photographers in the world to have total access to shoot for 7 months for the LAOOC. I did
attempt, as I do with all captures of film or digital, to
expose optimally. That's how I was trained. IF you are shooting your raws
optimally and getting ugly JPEGs to use John's workflow, and you like it, great. I would hope you cannot dispute the answer to a question you didn't answer (I did say if you capture raw+JPEG, one isn't optimally exposed. Is that incorrect or is it correct? ) but I will assume that answer: you
are optimally expose for raw, you are letting the JPEG go where it goes and then throw it away. That's fine. It's what John SHOULD recommend to his readers rather than attempt to suggest incorrectly that shooting for the JPEG doesn’t have a negative effect on the raw data.
He didn't do that. That's my only point here! In fact, IF you examine my very first post about this '
workflow', I asked John which data he optimally exposes for, the raw
or the jPEG. Then he asked a question that gives me the idea he doesn’t understand there IS a difference in how we expose for both. Even if he does, shouldn't his audience know the role of using a raw+JPEG workflow and exposure on both sets of data?
IF someone wants to write an article about shooting raw+JPEG and IF you agree they two demand different exposures for ideal data, should they not discuss exposure and not skirt it giving the impression one exposure for both is ideal for both?
It isn't. Unless you or another wants to go on record and state that optimally exposing for the JPEG
also provides optimal exposure for raw.
All one has to do is describe the workflow fully and optimally and that wasn't done. Hence my one original question which he didn't answer.