Wikipedia A camera raw image file contains minimally processed data from the image sensor of either a digital camera, image scanner, or motion picture film scanner. Obviously, we should add smartphone to the list now. Since Android Lollipop 5.0, people can take RAW photos with some smartphones. Well, that doesn’t mean all Android mobile phones. It must be running on Android 5.0 or above and has Camera 2 API enabled. Features of RAW Image: High image quality; lossless compression or high-quality lossy compression. Finer control. Raw conversion software allows users to manipulate more parameters (such as lightness, white balance, hue, saturation, etc...) and do so with greater variability. The contents of raw files include more information. All the changes made on a raw image file are non-destructive with the original data unchanged. Camera raw file size is typically 2–6 times larger than JPEG file size. Therefore, it is suggested to save RAW images on ...
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