In that case you can't reasonably do digital photography without "fake cosmetic bullshit" and no current digital camera will output anything even remotely close to no fake cosmetic bullshit.

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card_zero 14 hours ago | parent [-]

That sounds likely. I wonder what specific filters can't be turned off, though. I think you can usually turn off sharpening. Maybe noise removal is built-in somehow (I think somebody else said it's in the sensor).

	▲	Toutouxc 13 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I think you’ll find that there is no clear line between what you call fake bullshit and the rest of the process. The entire signal path is optimized at every step to reduce and suppress noise. There’s actual light noise, there’s readout noise, ADC noise, often dozens or hundreds of abnormal pixels. Certain autofocus technologies even sacrifice image-producing pixels, and simply interpolate over the “holes” in data. Regarding sharpening and optical stuff, many modern camera lenses are built with the expectation that some of their optical properties will be easy to correct for in software, allowing the manufacturer to optimize for other properties.