Information in Histogram in Adobe Camera RAW

Since I capture my images in RAW, when I open them in Adobe Camera RAW (via Elements 11), what information is displayed in the image and the histogram I see?
Is it showing me the jpeg created in the camera? If so, the jpeg settings in my camera are not only important in viewing the LCD and the histogram in my camera at the time of capture. They would also be important in viewing my image when it first opens in Adobe Camera RAW.
Thanks for some input.
Mary Lou

I have an answer to this question supplied to me from a forum on www.luminous-landscape.com. It is as follows:
Re: Understanding Camera RAW article
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Quote from: mlfrost on September 30, 2013, 05:14:21 PM
Perhaps you can answer a related question on Camera RAW. When I open an image captured in RAW format, I see an image and histogram in Adobe Camera Raw. Am I correct in assuming that the opening image and histogram are created from the camera's jpeg settings?
No...Camera Raw rips the entire raw image and does a demosaic and application of ACR defaults to generate the preview and the histogram (which is displaying the resulting graph based on the output color space set in ACR Workflow Options). ACR doesn't use ANY settings from the camera's JPEG settings and the only thing that ACR uses from the raw file is white balance info and the ISO metadata...

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Is it still possible to purchase the Adobe Camera Raw plugin for Photoshop 7?
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HI mattscreative,
Yes I've installed that but that imports .orf files and my camera saves .raw files.
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Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2011 23:26:25 -0600
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Subject: Adobe Camera Raw plugin for Photoshop 7
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Have you tried using the software for your camera? Looks like Olympus has one available for PS 6.0 and up. C-8080 Software:
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Adobe camera raw plugin for Premiere Pro

Check out this article, I just tried and it'd be magic if you could use this in premiere natively! Sending a feature request right now!
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HI mattscreative,
Yes I've installed that but that imports .orf files and my camera saves .raw files.
Thanks,
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Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2011 23:26:25 -0600
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Subject: Adobe Camera Raw plugin for Photoshop 7
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Have you tried using the software for your camera? Looks like Olympus has one available for PS 6.0 and up. C-8080 Software:
http://www.olympusamerica.com/cpg_section/software_results.asp?id=961& os=w Instructions:http://www.olympusamerica.com/files/oima_cckb/Rawplugin_instr.pdf
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Do you have any neartime plans to implement Fuji Xe-1 RAF format of RAW files into Adobe camera RAW?

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This is a user-to-user forum. Although there are some Adobe employees who monitor this forum occasionally, you are not addressing Adobe when you ask a question. Most of the people who comment here are simply users like yourself. However, you should know that updates are made available about every three months. And, usually, new cameras will be supported in the next version of Lightroom and Camera Raw, unless the camera is released too close to an Adobe update. If that happens, then you can usually expect support for the camera to be in the next update. None of us know when that will happen, and anyone who works for Adobe is not at liberty to divulge that information. Your camera will probably be supported in the near future, but you will simply have to wait and see when that will take place. I know, not a real satisfactory answer. But that's the way it is.

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MPPhoto wrote:
…I am not talking about any dialog boxes here…
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All dialog boxes MUST close when the Escape key is pressed, or a key that somehow acts somewhat like the Escape key is pressed.
You cannot get around that, Marco. Sorry if that irritates you, but that is reality.
All we do here is try to help people and offer workarounds.
If you're prone to hitting that key too often accidentally, perhaps the workaround would be for you to disable it, either by re-mapping the offending software keyboard layout, or by physically removing or otherwise disabling it in your hardware keyboard.
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I understand you are frustrated, and I feel for you for having lost many hours of work for a momentary gesture of inattention, but so far you have not given any details whatsoever about your setup.
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