Why is the Fuji RAW file bigger than Sony and Olympus?

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Zardoz
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Re: Why is the Fuji RAW file bigger than Sony and Olympus?
In reply to nixda, 3 months ago

nixda wrote:

The Fuji RAF files from the X-E1 are all 26146816 bytes large. They are not compressed, or Fuji found a magical way to always come up with the same file size even after compression. Unlikely.

23970816 bytes of raw data (12bpc), if it were 14bpc the raw data alone would be 27965952 bytes.  65450 bytes of EXIF (seems to be a fixed size).  That leaves around 2110550 bytes unaccounted for.  That makes uncompressed very likely.

That's also supported by the easy 20-30% compression available on these files, vs <5% on an OM-D raw file of the same scene.

Plus dcraw uses unpacked_load_raw to handle RAFs, so that sort of settles it.  Reading the source would answer most of these questions definitively, if one has the time.

To link the file size with the resolution of the image is, IMHO, quite far-fetched.

It displays a complete lack of understanding of the topic under discussion.  Always a great opportunity for some mindless copy/pasting though.

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