Alex, the perfection you seek "in camera" is impossible by either chemical or electronic means. You have to use darkroom or digital software to obtain what is nearer "reality" than has been captured by the camera. Anyway why try to capture just reality? That again is impossible by definition, after all just framing and composing the shot alters reality and even just observing reality alters it if theoretical physicists are to be believed.
Anyway what is the point? I want to express my self through my photography, not just soulless recordings. That is why I consider subject, viewpoint, lens selection, aperture, shutter speed, white balance, even time of year/day etc etc. These choices and others like film choice and paper grade in the old days and similar today are what lifts photography from a
mere attempt at a recording to an art form.
