>I do not care if you take out redundant bits, you are still taking them out. Why does it matter? Why does that make Apple deceptive? Lossless compression is a

>I do not care if you take out redundant bits, you are still taking them out. Why does it matter? Why does that make Apple deceptive? Lossless compression is as good as no compression, the only difference is the decompression time. You could store the uncompressed RAW file on a filesystem with built in (lossless) compression, or you could store the losslessly compressed RAW file on a filesystem with no compression. Once you have opened the image in your editor or photo viewer, the bits in that application's memory that you are editing or viewing are identical. Moreover RAW does not mean 'uncompressed'. It doesn't even mean losslessly compressed. Often RAWs use lossy compression. Both Canon and Nikon RAWs can. https://photographylife.com/compressed-vs-uncompressed-vs-lossless-compressed-raw#nikon-raw-file-options https://photographylife.com/compressed-vs-uncompressed-vs-lo...