And as usual a person who does not understand anything post a crappy analysis.

raw file are compressed or not, a choice made in camera. If you look at size alone a D800e produces a 79mb file uncompressed and when compressed (lossless) it goes down between 35 to 45mb. Because of the smaller size, according to this guy this is not a 14bit raw. Yeah. Right.

As to the last 'conspiracy theory "are we really getting 'pure' raw image data". let me tell you this person just wants to stir trouble.

I am surprised he did not come out with the moronic Nikon 'reduced raw' produced by the camera. THAT is something to complain about (lossy compression).

I would agree, bracketing something motionless could be good for HDR. If exposure is getting you down, get a meter or two (incident and maybe spot) and learn how to use them. Eventually, you will never miss a shot. On a movie, when several hundred million dollars is at stake, meters and manual exposure is the rule. It has to be right, or else the cinematographer is out of a job. DSLR meters are pretty good, governed by their database of images to look up, but imagine a time when all you had was the meter without high tech aids. This was the nature of film cameras. We often used handheld meters back in those days, or relied on our own scene computer known as "been there, shot that."

So you have a discipline as I also worked with a view camera albeit for a short time.

Do not let your discipline go because it is 'easier'. You know perfectly well that bracketing aperture creates more problems than it solves.

That said, there is a new technology coming out that will change the way we look at dof. Multiple lenses with multiple setting (focus and dof - IF I understood correctly) have delivered 'infinity' focus. There is a 'toy' out there that demonstrates the possibilities.