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2022-12-18 Adobe DNG Converter: Possible Loss of Metadata, Guaranteed Loss of File Dates, but Space Savings for Uncompressed RAW

2022-12-15 How much is Sony Botched Camera and Software Design $Costing You? Is Adobe DNG Converter Viable? The Sony Workflow TAX

2022-12-12 Sony Imaging Edge Viewer: Assembles Pixel Shift into Incompatible ARQ — Why Not Industry-Standard DNG? (REVISED)

2022-12-05 Sony A7R V Poor Design: Pixel Shift Disallows Lossless Compressed RAW, Lacks 8-Shot and 32-shot modes

2022-11-12 Reducing Hasselblad X2D 3FR Raw File Size via Adobe DNG Converter

2022-11-08 Reducing Hasselblad X2D File Size via Hasselblad Phocus Copy/Import, eg Converting Original Capture 3FR to FFF Format

2022-11-07 Back from Trip with Loads of Hasselblad X2D Images — and a Guarantee of Data Integrity with IntegrityChecker

2022-01-20 Leica M11 Appears to Be Doing Lossless Compressed DNG, for Solid Savings

2021-04-02 Sony A1 Pixel Shift: Inexplicably Writes Uncompressed RAW —  Fails to Respect Lossless-Compressed RAW Setting

2021-03-18 Sony A1 Lossless-Compressed Raw Format: Update Photoshop and Lightroom and you’re 'good'

2021-03-12 RawDigger and FastRawViewer Support Sony A1 Lossless-Compessed RAW

2021-03-11 Sony A7R IV: Where is the Firmware Update to Upgrade Us to Lossless-Compressed RAW Files? UPDATE: not likely to happen

2021-02-10 Sony A7R IV: Where is the Firmware Update to Upgrade Us to Lossless-Compressed RAW Files?

2020-01-10 Optimizing Zerene Stacker on High Core-Count Macs Like the 16-Core 2019 Mac Pro

2019-10-26 A Real World Example of How Sony 11+7 Bit Lossy Compression Creates Ugly Block Artifacts

2019-08-26 Fujifilm GFX100 Lossless Compression Space Savings for 2.5 Week Shoot totalling 4811 Files

2019-08-25 Sony A7R IV Looks Flawed for My Purposes: Appear to Lack Focus Stacking Support and Lossless Compressed RAW

2018-01-23 LibRaw (RawDigger/FastRawViewer) Releases Beta of “SonyPixelShift2DNG”: Makes DNG file from 4 Pixel Shift Files FAST for Direct Use in ACR/Lightroom

2017-06-04 Sony A9: Two Examples of Pattern/Banding Noise at ISO 100 (Pine Creek Skyline, Mt Tom) + Reader Comments

2017-02-04 Sigma sd Quattro-H: DNG Files Shrink by More than 50% After Adobe DNG Converter

2016-10-09 Sigma dp0 and dp1 Quattro: Razor Sharp Detail

2016-03-16 Fujifilm X-Pro2: Raw File Format, Uncompresssed and Lossless-Compressed

2015-10-22 Understanding the Sony A7R II Uncompressed ARW Raw Format

2015-10-22 Reader Question: Convert to DNG for Sony’s Space-Wasting 14-bit Uncompressed RAW Files?

2015-10-19 Sony A7R II: Uncompressed Raw

2015-09-15 Sony Announces an Uncompressed File Format for A7R II and Future Cameras

2015-08-21 Sony A7R II: General Commentary

2015-06-16 Sony Working on Uncompressed File Format?

2013-12-10 Sony A7R: How Sony Lossy Compression Works

2013-12-06 Sony A7R: First Look with the FE 35mm f/2.8 Sonnar ZA (oddball tonal transitions from lossy compression / 'cooked' file format?)

Cameras and Examples

Infrared camera choices with examples.

Nikon D800E

36 megapixels in a compact full-frame DSLR..

Overview of Video with Nikon D800, D800E, D4, Canon 5DM3

How does video quality compare with crop of mid-2012 DSLRs?.

Sony Alpha A7R III

Attention to details: a solid upgrade over the A7R II..

Sony Alpha A7R

Full frame compact mirrorless with interchangeable lenses..

Sony Alpha A9

Blackout-free 20 fps speed demon..

Sony DSC-RX10 III

Stunningly high image quality in a 20MP point and wide range zoom..

Fujifilm X-Pro2

Fujifilm's 24MP APS-C offering..



Blog posts, reverse chronological

2022

2022-12-18 Adobe DNG Converter: Possible Loss of Metadata, Guaranteed Loss of File Dates, but Space Savings for Uncompressed RAW

2022-12-15 How much is Sony Botched Camera and Software Design $Costing You? Is Adobe DNG Converter Viable? The Sony Workflow TAX

2022-12-12 Sony Imaging Edge Viewer: Assembles Pixel Shift into Incompatible ARQ — Why Not Industry-Standard DNG? (REVISED)

2022-12-05 Sony A7R V Poor Design: Pixel Shift Disallows Lossless Compressed RAW, Lacks 8-Shot and 32-shot modes

2022-11-12 Reducing Hasselblad X2D 3FR Raw File Size via Adobe DNG Converter

2022-11-08 Reducing Hasselblad X2D File Size via Hasselblad Phocus Copy/Import, eg Converting Original Capture 3FR to FFF Format

2022-11-07 Back from Trip with Loads of Hasselblad X2D Images — and a Guarantee of Data Integrity with IntegrityChecker

2022-01-20 Leica M11 Appears to Be Doing Lossless Compressed DNG, for Solid Savings

2021

2021-04-02 Sony A1 Pixel Shift: Inexplicably Writes Uncompressed RAW —  Fails to Respect Lossless-Compressed RAW Setting

2021-03-18 Sony A1 Lossless-Compressed Raw Format: Update Photoshop and Lightroom and you’re 'good'

2021-03-12 RawDigger and FastRawViewer Support Sony A1 Lossless-Compessed RAW

2021-03-11 Sony A7R IV: Where is the Firmware Update to Upgrade Us to Lossless-Compressed RAW Files? UPDATE: not likely to happen

2021-02-10 Sony A7R IV: Where is the Firmware Update to Upgrade Us to Lossless-Compressed RAW Files?

2020

2020-01-10 Optimizing Zerene Stacker on High Core-Count Macs Like the 16-Core 2019 Mac Pro

2019

2019-10-26 A Real World Example of How Sony 11+7 Bit Lossy Compression Creates Ugly Block Artifacts

2019-08-26 Fujifilm GFX100 Lossless Compression Space Savings for 2.5 Week Shoot totalling 4811 Files

2019-08-25 Sony A7R IV Looks Flawed for My Purposes: Appear to Lack Focus Stacking Support and Lossless Compressed RAW

2018

2018-01-23 LibRaw (RawDigger/FastRawViewer) Releases Beta of “SonyPixelShift2DNG”: Makes DNG file from 4 Pixel Shift Files FAST for Direct Use in ACR/Lightroom

2017

2017-06-04 Sony A9: Two Examples of Pattern/Banding Noise at ISO 100 (Pine Creek Skyline, Mt Tom) + Reader Comments

2017-02-04 Sigma sd Quattro-H: DNG Files Shrink by More than 50% After Adobe DNG Converter

2016

2016-10-09 Sigma dp0 and dp1 Quattro: Razor Sharp Detail

2016-03-16 Fujifilm X-Pro2: Raw File Format, Uncompresssed and Lossless-Compressed

2015

2015-10-22 Understanding the Sony A7R II Uncompressed ARW Raw Format

2015-10-22 Reader Question: Convert to DNG for Sony’s Space-Wasting 14-bit Uncompressed RAW Files?

2015-10-19 Sony A7R II: Uncompressed Raw

2015-09-15 Sony Announces an Uncompressed File Format for A7R II and Future Cameras

2015-08-21 Sony A7R II: General Commentary

2015-06-16 Sony Working on Uncompressed File Format?

2013

2013-12-10 Sony A7R: How Sony Lossy Compression Works

2013-12-06 Sony A7R: First Look with the FE 35mm f/2.8 Sonnar ZA (oddball tonal transitions from lossy compression / 'cooked' file format?)

2013-03-20 File Size as a Measure of Image Detail

2012

2012-04-16 Nikon D800: NEF 12-bit vs 14-bit and Compressed vs Uncompressed

2011

2011-12-28 Sony NEX-7 — RAW Only 8 Bits?

2008

2008-10-26 Opening and saving files in Photoshop is SLOW

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