[jorlow]

Log is lower contrast so it's less likely to clip (be a fully saturated color or pure white or black). And clipping inherently limits your max dynamic range.

Log also means a "look" is not baked into the image so, since you're starting from scratch, it's 1) easier to tweak the images so you can cut between two cameras from different manufacturers without distracting differences and 2) you can give the image more of your personality.

As a general note, I've found that in the world of "cinematography", tech terms aren't used very rigorously and there's a lot of cargo cult which comes from the benefit of one tech being conflated as a benefit of something else. It's often hard to sift through the noise when learning.

[shrx]

But clipping occurs before the log transformation. The sensor's ADC is still linear and has a fixed dynamic range regardless of the output encoding format.

[jorlow]

Significant clipping happens there yes but more clipping happens when the "look" is applied and contrast is added.