Digital Camera Configuration - Camera RAW , first steps

- Camera Image Quality Setting - Camera RAW + Largest JPEG
- Lowest Compression - Finest Quality - (Super Fine)
- Flash Off
- ISO - Auto 
(Unless experimenting or lowest required to achieve optimal Aperture or Shutter speeds.)

- White Balance - Auto 
(Unless experimenting or you know the camera is not acurate in detecting light source. Irrelevant with regards to Camera RAW image editing)

-AEB - auto exposure bracketing enabled or on - ( 3 shots (-1/3  or .3) or (-2/3 .7 ) or ( .5 or 1/2 stop increments) 

- Media card FORMATTED following each major accumulation of images. (Low Level Format on monthly basis)

---Work Flow

Adobe Bridge - preview and editing 
- Camera RAW Plug-in