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Evaluating RAW, mRAW, and sRAW

Evaluating RAW, mRAW, and sRAW

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Evaluating RAW, mRAW, and sRAW

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- By this point, you should have a clear idea of the advantages of shooting RAW. And if you've dabbled in it at all, you've probably taken note of the large size of RAW files. As I mentioned earlier, though, RAW files are bigger than JPEGs, but storage is cheap, so I tend not to worry about their size. However, larger files do have other impacts on your work flow. They're slower to transfer to your computer, they use more storage there, and they can take longer to process, simply because they contain more numbers to crunch. Because of all of those reasons, both Canon and Nikon have introduced smaller RAW formats called sRAW. Canon has an additional small format called mRAW, and the difference there is Small RAW, Medium RAW. It's the same process. They're just two different sizes. The problem is that neither company will explain the technical specifics of these smaller formats, so we don't really know how they work. With JPEG, of course, camera makers can offer a range of sizes because…

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