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Are you referring to confusion in the article, or among users? Everyone spells it with all caps. Browse DPReview for a bit. "RAW" is just the convention, even
by sandofsky 6y ago
Are you referring to confusion in the article, or among users?
Everyone spells it with all caps. Browse DPReview for a bit. "RAW" is just the convention, even though it makes no sense.
- samatman 6y agoIt makes a tiny bit of sense. Early digital cameras still had RAW files, if anything they were more important since the onboard chips for synthesizing JPGs weren't very powerful. At the time, portable storage like Compact Flash or Sony Memory Stick was often formated in good ol' FAT32, so 8.3 file names using only capital letters was a longstanding convention. They were .RAW files, not .raw, in other words, and frequently enough, still are.
- dylan604 6y agoIt makes a lot more sense if you say it as upper case every time you say it out loud. "I shoot in raw format" vs "I shoot in RAW format!!" It makes the conversation more interesting.
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