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A simple way to be safe is to bracket all shots. That way you get some with good shadow data and some with good highlight data. My camera will take 3 bracketed shots in rapid succession without having to reset anything. Since it's two years old and was not particularly high end, I'm sure most of the newer more professional quality cameras will do this too.
As for RAW image format, I agree with what's been recommended here. My sister (the professional landscape photographer) shoots in RAW format and gave me a demo of some Photoshop color correction capabilities afterwards. We shot some intentionally bad photos - wrong exposure, wrong white balance - and the ones in RAW format retained enough color data that we could do some very nice color correction later. The ones that were in JPEG format could never be brought back into line, to give believable skintones. I imagine it was due to some data loss in color storage with the JPEG format, I guess, even though the original RAW and JPEG images looked the same.
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