HI,, Explain what "RAW" mean.?

Question

I dont understand the term "RAW"
I am purchasing a Canon IXUS IS Camera and the write up speaks about raw.
Can you please explain.

Regards Waltz.

Answer 1

RAW images contain unprocessed image data direct from the camera's sensor. In order to convert this data into more usable formats((jpeg)) you must first process the data on your computer with a specific software((i use the the image data convertor which comes with my camera and photo shop CS2)).

here u can adjust every RAW property u can think of..from white balance to exposure to sharpness and color,,if u like to play with tone curves ....reduce the noise,,add some affects to ur image ..

all this can be done with RAW image via a special software.

it'salmost like u get a second chance to take ur photo.

but u have to note that it's alot larger than their jpeg equivalents ...so it will take up quite a bit of space on ur memory card.

Answer 2

RAW is the image file format. A raw image file contains minimally processed data from the image sensor of a digital camera or image scanner. Raw files are so named because they are not yet processed and ready to be used with a bitmap graphics editor or printed. Normally, the image will be processed by a raw converter in a wide-gamut internal colorspace where precise adjustments can be made before conversion to an RGB file format such as TIFF or JPEG for storage, printing, or further manipulation

Answer 3

Cannon explains this here,

Image format offered on high-end cameras which stores the raw data from the imaging chip before it’s been processed; this file is usually stored uncompressed or with lossless compression. RAW images are normally less than half the size of TIFFs, while offering the greatest potential image quality, but must be processed into a usable image format using software later.

Answer 4

'RAW' means as it is! Unprocessed! It's like 'Raw meat'...unseasoned or cooked?

So, it this case.... if you take picture in 'RAW' format( Mega-pixels), it will take up a large amount of memory space ( 1-2MB minimum or more).

'RAW' format usually meant for professional photographer. Or if you need to do you own editing later on. Normal picture taking, you can go for compress format like 'JPG'. Commonly use are from 1024x 768 to 2048x1536 pixels. It is good enough.

Answer 5

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Answer 6

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Raw describes a material that is in its natural unprocessed form, or has not had the final stages of processing. For example, raw food refers to food that has not been cooked, and raw silk is the term for unprocessed silk. Raw also has symbolic meaning. See Claude Lévi-Strauss's The Raw and the Cooked.



RAW may be a three-letter acronym for:



* Research and Analysis Wing, India's external intelligence agency

* Ready and willing

* Rules as written

* Raw Architecture Workstation

* Robert Anton Wilson, American futurist and author



In technology, raw may refer to:



* RAW image format, a variety of image files used by digital cameras containing the unprocessed data from the sensor.

* Read and Write

* Read After Write, technologies such as CD-R and CD-RW which allow reading data immediately after writing, as opposed to CD-ROMs which usually go through mass replication before it can be read.

* RAW audio format, a filetype used to represent sound as Pulse-code modulation data, without header or metadata.

* An uncompressed disk image.

* a Unix file format containing insufficient information for proper screen mapping of characters. Linux User's Manual CONSOLECHARS(8)



In the entertainment industry, raw may refer to:



* RAW, a large-format, avant-garde alternative comics magazine launched in 1980 and edited by Françoise Mouly and Art Spiegelman

* WWE Raw, a World Wrestling Entertainment program

* Raw FM, an Australian Broadcasting Corporation television series

* Raw Magazine, EMAP's metal magazine of the 1980s and early 1990s, relaunched as a Britpop magazine in the mid 1990s

* Eddie Murphy Raw, a live stand-up comedy recording

* Radio Warwick, the University of Warwick student radio station

* RAW, the Sierra Club newsletter

* Ramones RAW, a music documentary

* Raw Meat, a film

* R.A.W is an album by Daz Dillinger.

* R.A.W. Records, a record label



As a slang word, raw may refer to:



* Typically used in the United States to mean awesome, cool, amazing, spectacular.

* Raw is a common street name for heroin used in the midwest United States.

* Sexual intercourse engaged in without using a condom



Other possible uses:



* RAW (animanga), Unsubtitled or untranslated anime or manga

* Raw, an album by singer Monica

* The Mighty RAW, singer/composer Ron Wasserman a.k.a. Aaron Waters

* RAW (unbleached vegan rolling paper)

* RAW, a novel by Scott Monk

* Raw, a 1996 skateboard film from Thrasher Magazine

Answer 7

raw in slang means awesome :)



example:

'dude, that's raw as hell!'