"lossless" has always referred to compression, not sampling - but it seems camera manufacturers want to change that for marketing reasons. Similarly (without s

"lossless" has always referred to compression, not sampling - but it seems camera manufacturers want to change that for marketing reasons. Similarly (without starting an audiophile thread): Recording a vinyl record and compressing to a MP3 is "perceptually lossless" but will be different to compressing to a FLAC, never mind that the sampling output will always have random noise.