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We asked camera companies why their RAW formats are all different and confusing

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361 points Tomte | 1 comments | 04 Apr 25 11:41 UTC | HN request time: 0.352s | source
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t0bia_s ◴[07 Apr 25 07:10 UTC] No.43608683[source]▶
Compressed RAF (Fujifilm, 24MP) ~20 MB

DNG (24MP) ~90 MB

It cost about 4 times more to store RAW files in DNG format.

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1. coder543 ◴[07 Apr 25 15:08 UTC] No.43612406[source]▶
I downloaded a sample RAF file from the internet. It was 16 megapixels, and 34MB in size. I used Adobe DNG Converter, and it created a file that was 25MB in size. It was actually smaller.

Claiming that DNG takes up 4x space doesn't align with any of my own experiences, and it didn't happen on the RAF file that I just tested.