The selection of the final choice of image rendering is part of the process of white balancing and color grading.Like a photographic negative, a raw digital image may have a wider dynamic range or color gamut than the eventual final image format, and it preserves most of the information of the captured image. Likewise, the process of converting a raw image file into a viewable format is sometimes called 'developing' a raw image, by analogy with the film development process used to convert photographic film into viewable prints.
There are dozens, if not hundreds, of raw formats in use by different models of digital equipment (like cameras or film scanners).Contents1 Rationale2 File contents2.1 Sensor image data2.2 Standardization3 Processing3.1 Benefits3.2 Drawbacks4 Software support4.1 Operating system support4.1.1 Apple macOS and iOS4.1.2 Microsoft Windows4.1.2.1 Windows Camera Codec Pack4.1.2.2 Windows Imaging Component (WIC)4.1.3 Android4.2 Free and open source software4.3 Proprietary software4.3.1 Dedicated raw converters4.3.2 Others4.3.3 HTML5 browser-based apps5 Raw filename extensions and respective camera manufacturers6 Raw bitmap files7 See also8 References9 External linksRationaleRaw image files are sometimes described as 'digital negatives' though they are not negative images, they fulfill the same role as negatives in film photography: that is, the negative is not directly usable as an image, but has all of the information needed to create an image. This often encodes the image in a device-dependent color space. Normally, the image is processed by a raw converter in a wide-gamut internal color space where precise adjustments can be made before conversion to a 'positive' file format such as TIFF or JPEG for storage, printing, or further manipulation. Raw files are named so because they are not yet processed and therefore are not ready to be printed or edited with a bitmap graphics editor. x3fType of formatImage file formatsA camera raw image file contains minimally processed data from the image sensor of either a digital camera, a motion picture film scanner, or other image scanner. For the German geographic domain for North Rhine-Westphalia, see. For the ATL file type, see ATL Server ยง SRF files.'.nrw' redirects here. It is not to be confused with Adobe Camera Raw.'.srf' redirects here. For storage virtualization topic, see IMG (file format).'Camera raw' redirects here. CR2 file format) Jump to navigation Jump to search This article is about a digital photography topic. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Redirected from.