Its a companion not a replcement
I didn't see anything about being able to change white balance or exposure or other editing nondestructively like you can RAW files.
repleo wrote:
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Yawn.
No converted file format replaces raw.
Yea, it doesn't make me sad. I got to test and use .JPX a while back and that was a mistake. A hard disk failed and the backup was corrupted; I lost almost three years of pics when Win7 did not support the .DLL assc. with the extention.
bpulv
Loc: Buena Park, CA
burkphoto wrote:
Yawn.
No converted file format replaces raw.
RAW files contain all possible data to produce the highest quality print possible. ANY compressed format removes some of that data in the compression process. It goes back to a basic rule of physics; you can't get something for nothing. In the case of photo computer files, the trade off for small file size is reduced picture quality.
That's cool, a better JPEG; but as others have stated, it's not a replacement for RAW. My question is, you know the little tiny JPEG that's in the RAW data? Are they, whoever they are, going to replace it with the new format?
repleo wrote:
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Of course that will have no effect whatsoever on raw files!
bpulv wrote:
RAW files contain all possible data to produce the highest quality print possible. ANY compressed format removes some of that data in the compression process. It goes back to a basic rule of physics; you can't get something for nothing. In the case of photo computer files, the trade off for small file size is reduced picture quality.
Not all data compression algorithms are lossy. There are methods to express 14 zeros in a row without using 14 bits to do so. Lossless algorithms know to put all the zeros back in when decompressing the data for display or other form of output.
I can see that Sony would want to use an [XFine] which would be finer than [Extra Fine] because it would compress faster before writing. (But because it is larger, would the time saved in compression be more than the time lost in reading & writing to the SD card?) But would the new format still compress the 12, 14, or 16 bit color down to 8 bits, like all other JPEGs? RAW (uncompressed) is still RAW. But shooting both RAW+JPEG would probably still be compressed in the Sony cameras.
aammatj
Loc: Zebulon, NC / Roscoe, Ill
I wonder if it will output 12 or 14 bit files
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