Look at these two points together.  I'm mainly a JPG shooter, but when
the lighting gets funny I switch to RAW.  The raw processing of tricky
white balance is so good that it's worth the trouble.

I use the RAW 



>  4. Why, when I tried to auto-white balance an ISO-1600 picture of a
> toddler in a bathtub using Lightroom's WB wand to click on the white
> porcelain, did the baby's flesh go all mottled when you look close
up?
>   
All those auto-whatever-features are extremely bad idea in complex 
lighting conditions. Try RAW and manual conversion settings.
>  5. Why, when I tried to do the same to an ISO-1600 shot of boys
> playing soccer in a yellow gym, did it snap into violent purple?
>   

and 

>  9. Why do you want a RAW button, wouldn't most people shoot in RAW
> all the time or JPEG all the time?
>   
Again - depends. Myself, I do not use it at all (I shoot only RAW), but

I know several people who are enjoying it much.


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