What is Camera Raw?

The fi rst thing to understand about camera Raw is that it is not one fi le format, but many. Camera Raw formats are proprietary, developed by camera manufacturers to best handle the data produced by individual models. Hence, the Raw file format produced by Canon’s EOS 5D will diff er from that produced...

Raw Images

If your camera provides a raw mode, you have the option of deferring all the steps described in the previous section. In raw mode, your camera reads the data off the camera sensor, and writes it to your camera’s storage card. No processing is performed— not even demosaicing. Because these files are...