[TeMPOraL]

Couple other common cases:

- Photographing serial numbers or readouts on hard-to-reach labels and displays, like e.g. your water meter.

- Photographing damage to walls, surfaces or goods, for purpose of warranty or insurance claim.

- DIY / citizen science / school science experiments of all kind.

- Workshops, auto-repairs, manufacturing, tradespeople - all heavily relying on COTS cameras for documenting, calibrating, sometimes even automation, because it's cheap, available, and it works. Well, it worked.

Imagine your camera fighting you on any of that, giving you bullshit numbers or actively removing the very details you're trying to capture. Or insurance rejecting your claim on the possibility of that happening.

Also let's not forget that plenty of science and even military ops are done using mass-market cameras, because ain't anyone have money to spend on Dedicated Professional Stuff.

[wizzard0]

Photo copiers replacing digits on scanned financial reports with digits that compress better are a decade old already :)

http://www.dkriesel.com/en/blog/2013/0802_xerox-workcentres_...?

[quesera]

Can people taking documentary photos can disable the feature? Obviously casual users won't be aware of the option, if it exists at all.

I've often wished for an image format that is a container for [original, modified]. Maybe with multiple versions. I hate having to manage separate files to keep things together.