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Specialized formats (mainly raw image formats) used by digital cameras and scanners

''See also:''
* [[Graphics]]
* [[Scientific Data formats]] - Telescope, microscope, and other formats
* [[Geospatial]]
* [[Health and Medicine]] - Medical imaging

== Raw image formats ==
(Minimally-processed data from digital image sensors, usually digital cameras)

* [[Arriflex D-20]]: .ari
* [[BAY]] (Casio)
* [[Camera Image File Format]] (CIFF) as used by Canon: .crw
* [[Canon RAW 2]]: .cr2
* [[CHDK raw]]: (Older-style CHDK RAW files)
* [[DNG]] (Digital Negative): .dng (Adobe)
* [[Epson ERF]]
* [[Fujifilm RAF]]
* [[Hasselblad 3FR]]
* [[HDRiRAW]]
* [[Imacon 3F]]: .fff
* [[Kodak]]: .dcs, .dcr, .drf, .k25, .kdc
* [[Leaf MOS]]
* [[Leica]]: .raw, .rw2, .dng
* [[Logitech]]: .pxn
* [[Lytro]]: .lfp
* [[Mamiya MEF]]
* [[Minolta MDC (Minolta RD-175)]]
* [[Minolta MRW]]
* [[Mitsubishi DJ-1000]]: .dat
* [[Nikon]]: .nef, .nrw, .ndf
* [[Nokia digital pictures]]: .nrw
* [[Olympus ORF]]
* [[Panasonic RAW/RW2]]: .raw, .rw2
* [[Pentax PEF]]
* Phase One [[IIQ]] Raw
* [[Phase One]]: .cap, .eip
* [[Porst]]
* [[Rawzor]]: .rwz
* [[RED digital pictures]]: .r3d
* [[Rollei RDC]]: .rdc
* [[Samsung SRW]]
* [[Sony ARW]]
* [[Sony SRF]]
* [[Sony SR2]] ({{PRONOM|fmt/1126}})
* [[TIFF/EP]] (ISO 12234-2)
* [[X3F]] (Sigma / Foveon)

== Other formats ==

* [[AAE sidecar format]] - Adjustment data
* [[Canon EOS C300 Custom Picture Profile]] (CPF) - Camera settings
* [[Canon XF-AVC]] (video)
* [[DCF]]
* [[DNG camera profile]]
* [[FPF (FLIR)]]
* [[J6I]] - Ricoh Digital Camera image file
* [[PCO B16]] - Image format used by PCO software
* [[PSF (PhotoStudio)]] - Image format used by Canon software
* [[Sony Mavica 411]] - Thumbnail image
* [[ZoomBrowser Ex thumbnail cache]]

== Software ==
Most of the software listed here is based on dcraw.

* [http://www.cybercom.net/~dcoffin/dcraw/ dcraw]
** [http://www.cybercom.net/~dcoffin/dcraw/#others dcraw's list of other raw photo decoders]
* [[Konvertor]]
* [https://libopenraw.freedesktop.org/libopenraw/ libopenraw]
* [http://www.libraw.org/ LibRaw]
* [http://ufraw.sourceforge.net/ UFRaw]
* [[Netpbm]]: cameratopam
* [[XnView]]
* [http://rawtherapee.com/ RawTherapee]
* [http://rawstudio.org/ Rawstudio]
* [https://www.darktable.org/ darktable]
* [http://rawspeed.org/ RawSpeed]
* [http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/ ExifTool]
* [http://www.exiv2.org/ Exiv2]

== Sample files ==
* [http://www.rawsamples.ch/index.php/en/ Raw Samples: sample files from many digital camera formats]
* https://github.com/drewnoakes/metadata-extractor-images
* http://rawtherapee.com/shared/test_images/

== Links ==
* [[Wikipedia:Raw image format|Wikipedia: Raw image format]]
* [http://lewiscollard.com/cameras/hdr-sucks/ HDR is stupid and it sucks]
* [http://opensource.samsung.com/ Samsung source code (including for their digital cameras)]
* [http://teacherdudebbq.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/riot-photographers-decalogue.html How to photograph riots]
* [http://imgur.com/gallery/Kl0nI World's first digital camera (1975)]
* [http://www.openraw.org/ OpenRAW] - A mostly-defunct initiative to lobby for the documentation of RAW formats
** [http://www.openraw.org/info/index.html The RAW Problem]
* [http://www.dpconline.org/blog/personal-digital-preservation-richard-wright Personal Digital Preservation: Photographs and Video]