The end result of this is that I tend to save exposures as raw data only and do all the rendering in post facto processing. This is the most similar to my film camera workflow, where my a priori decisions are limited to exposure, focus, framing, and timing ... all the other work is post facto. That said, I still have a couple of cameras that require more time, and others that only store rendered data. For example, the Light L16 camera's rendering app, Lumen, allows post-facto choosing of simulated aperture and some degrees of freedom in determining best focus plane on original capture data, and it takes a good bit of time to take the settings you've applied and render out even a raw file processable in other image processing apps.
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