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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: 0.205s | source
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FollowingTheDao ◴[07 Apr 25 14:12 UTC] No.43611764[source]▶
What? They did not say it was Capitalism and greed? I am shocked!

They are just trying to lock people in to their format and make them dependent on the company instead of an open source and universal format.

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1. gnarlynarwhal42 ◴[07 Apr 25 22:12 UTC] No.43616527[source]▶
The company literally makes the hardware... You choose which company you prefer and generally stick within that ecosystem. Almost everybody uses third party software to process the images anyway, so we aren't really "locked in"

If anything maybe you'd have a point if you said they should open up the specs of the mount and lens/body communication, but the RAW format really just has near-zero impact in the real world