BigDaddy wrote:
Not my way of thinking, it is how my 24 mb Nikon D5200 NEF file sizes come out. As you can see, they are very close to what I said. These are bytes btw, not bits.
Checking further, my old Panasonic fz 18 is an 8 mp camera and it's raw file sizes are around 13mb. Why these variations I don't know. I've read RAW files are compressed by some manufacturers, and this could be what is going on, I sure don't know what all these folks do with raw files, they are all proprietary and different. My Panasonic files are closer to what BebuLamar is getting with his camera, but not my Nikon.
What are your raw file sizes, and from what camera?
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I really didn't know, so I just took a shot. The camera is an EOS 80D which has 24 Mp (6000X4000). The RAW file size for this one shot was 29MB.
I'm sure the internal firmware compresses the data somewhat. Each pixel must put out much more than one bit.