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Topic: Do I see RAW, JPEG, or what on my lcd screen? (Read 9030 times)
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dentheman
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Hello, I shoot in RAW and JPEG simultaniously (sp?) with my 40D. My question is: After taking a shot and viewing it in the LCD, am I viewing it as a RAW image, or has the camera done some processing and showing me a JPEG image? Thanks.
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whizkid
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When you review images on a camera's lcd you are really viewing a small jpeg file that is embedded in the EXIF data.
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yayas
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Is it really small jpeg? We can zoom it many times larger.
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Bob Atkins
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You can think of it as showing a JPEG. You can't display a RAW file so what it displays is effectively a JPEG which corresponds to the RAW file processed with the camera's JPEG settings at the time the shot was taken.
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dentheman
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So, it is a raw file processed to meet the camera settings, making it a JPEG. That's really what any JPEG is, right? A raw image that has been processed, so it is no longer raw. Thanks for the inputs, you have answered my question.
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whizkid
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Raw image data is not part of the jpeg exif specification. Raw is not a standard specification as jpeg is so each brand can have their own version and most do. However, both jpeg and raw images include a jpeg exif header file.
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