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Canon 1000D Reduced Raw File Size

Started Jun 8, 2020 | Discussions thread
Lemming51
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Re: Canon 1000D Reduced Raw File Size

kd6vm wrote:

I have recently been playing with my older Canon XS/1000D and have been shooting in Raw+jpeg. Although the jpeg pictures are the correct size (3888 x 2592), the Raw picture size is only 1936 x 1288 - about half of what the manual says it should be. This also happens when I shoot in Raw only.

The Raw file size is about 10 mb, what would be expected, but the display size is half of what would be expected.

Is that normal for an older Canon Raw format?

Not normal. 1936 x 1288 is the S (small) jpg size. RAW is always the full 3888 x 2592. Some bodies have smaller sized M-RAW and S-RAW choices, but not the XS/1000D. You're sure it's the xxxxx.CR2 file that has 1936 x 1288 size?

How are you viewing the RAW files? Perhaps your RAW software is defaulting to processing/displaying the full RAW file as 1936 x 1288 output?

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