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Re:We asked camera companies why their RAW formats are all d... by bobmcnamara on Tuesday April 08, 2025 @09:26AM (#43621548)
Our proprietary format was a header followed by a raw sensor dump.

Despite this, people eventually used it for photographic purposes.

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Re:We asked camera companies why their RAW formats are all d... by seba_dos1 on Tuesday April 08, 2025 @08:37PM (#43627827)
So is DNG in the implementation I've worked on (data as outputted by the sensor wrapped in a TIFF structure), but whether what the sensor outputs is actually "raw" can be debatable and is sensor- and configuration-dependent.
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Re:We asked camera companies why their RAW formats are all d... by bobmcnamara on Wednesday April 09, 2025 @07:05AM (#43630835)
Absolutely true. Our sensors would dump their registers in the first few lines so at least you knew what settings were used for that frame.
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