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Why RAW?
Hi All,
Why RAW?
RAW format captures all the information the camera has without any processing. Most cameras only capture one color channel per pixel. Producing even a 16-bit TIFF from that would require some processing in the camera.
Why RAW?
That makes sense. THANKS!
Why RAW?
Any alteration to an image file is always destructive, especially color corrections, there is less information in the resulting file. The smaller the original file, the worse the effect (banding, posterization,) on edited output.
Why RAW?
Just to reiterate / elaborate on what the others have said, tiff files are stored after the camera has done some processing to the image, such as color balance, etc. RAW files are stored before the camera does anything to them except record them. Thus, if you trust youself to make color and sharpening corrections more than you trust your camera, RAW is useful because you're not relying on the processing power of the camera, which is likely to be not as good as the results you can get from a computer and some photoshop skill. So usually if you're talented at photoshop, or have some program that is better than the internal devices in the camera, then RAW is more useful than TIFF. But if you're not all that experienced, it can often be a good idea to let the camera do it for you. |
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