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When the file is in RAW mode it is 12bit capture, when you open it in Adobe Camera RAW it opens it as 12bit and on save it saves it as a 8bit JPG (this is all that is possible with current standard), or 8bit TIFF or 16bit TIFF.
If you want to do a lot of editing in Photoshop (PS) it is best to work with the TIFF and depending on your version of Photoshop it may be possible to use the 16bit tools but earlier versions of PS only had 8bit tools so you always had to convert to 8bit to use.
Hope this helps.
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