Download & manage RAW files?

bobn2 wrote:

Danno B wrote:

LynniePad wrote:

Here’s that Sony text with raw substituted for RAW. At one point it becomes ungrammatical.

raw & JPEG:
File format: raw (Records using the raw compression format.) + JPEG
A raw image and a JPEG image are created at the same time. This is suitable when you need 2 image files, a JPEG for viewing, and a raw for editing.

That is just plain nonsense and factually incorrect because there is no such thing as a raw, or even RAW, image. The Sony marketing people, like other camera manufacturers' marketing people try to dumb things down for the mum and dad "photographers" and then get it horribly wrong as in this case.

A more correct version would be:

"A JPEG image is created after the shutter has closed and the collection of the raw data from the sensor is complete. The raw data can optionally be stored in a separate file (for customised development in a raw converter software application) to the JPEG image file."

You should be a technical author. That's a very clear and concise text and way superior to the Sony version. Still, to be fair to Sony, the text probably started in Japanese (which has completely different alphabets - 4 of them - grammatical rules and doesn't have capitalisation) then was translated, likely by translators that didn't have much clue of the content, and then to technical authors, who might have had a little more, but then again, not much.

Back in the 1990's I worked with software translation, and we used to joke that the process for creating technical documentation was something like this:

A over stressed engineer who does grasp the technology but has no concept of expressing this in a human readable form writes a quick draft. This draft is then expanded on by a similarly stressed writer who can write good explanations, but only barely grasps the underlying technology. This result is then, often in somewhat unfinished form, handed over to lowest bidding translation company with a bunch of newly hired minimum wage translators having a go at writing the text in their language.