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Which non-raw formats have the same capabilities as raw?

But isn't the advantage of raw over jpeg simply the fact that a raw image has a higher bit depth and is not lossy compressed? No. Bits don't always represent the same thing. In raw image files bits ...
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Why are the colours are not coming out right in my infrared photography?

Here's what a true color rendering of an image exposed to only infrared light looks like to our eyes: Any time we create an image using only wavelengths that our human vision does not perceive we ...
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Which non-raw formats have the same capabilities as raw?

Other than having deeper colour and no loss compression main reason why raw files are superior is that bigger computer with no power restriction and no patent and license restrictions allows better ...
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Which non-raw formats have the same capabilities as raw?

"Other than demosaicing..." That seems to be a massive understatement... demosaicing is a huge factor. First, a file format is just a container... in itself it doesn't mean anything. E.g. ...
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Which non-raw formats have the same capabilities as raw?

Doing some digging on the Interwebs, it all comes down to purpose and what each one is. A RAW file is a record of sensor data, all of it. A TIFF file is a processed image that no longer contains all ...
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