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Why RAW?
Authored by: lrosenstein on Mar 15, '05 01:54:35PM

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.

You are right about the flexibility of TIFF, and in fact Adobe's new digital negative format is based on the TIFF standard.



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Why RAW?
Authored by: goatbar on Mar 15, '05 02:11:28PM

That makes sense. THANKS!



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Why RAW?
Authored by: Bruce Miller on Mar 15, '05 02:13:07PM

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.

RAW color correction is lossless, one can even shoot grossly misadjusted color settings (tungsten shot as daylight) and recover the color as long as exposure is within parameters.



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