In my first posting, I think I "wrote before I thought."
While there are those who love constructing or synthesizing images, it's probably fair to say that most of us are more interested in capturing a particular image as directly as possible. If the shot is previsualized to have a specific appearance, then it should be taken with whatever effects/tools/adjustments are necessary to achieve that appearance.
My question was more of a knee-jerk realization that applying gamma corrections, etc., in the camera would, in effect, distort the original information and make recovering that original information more difficult, perhaps impossible. However, I didn't stop to realize that - if the photograper is as skilled as, e.g., JT - the resultant image IS the desired image, and the "original information" is unnecessary.
Sorry.
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