Cameras and Digital Image Sensors

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
 * Canon RAW 3: .cr3
 * Casio CAM: .cam
 * CHDK raw: (Older-style CHDK RAW files)
 * DNG (Digital Negative): .dng (Adobe)
 * Epson ERF
 * Fujifilm RAF
 * GoPro GPR
 * 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
 * Enhanced Image Package (.eip)
 * Phase One RAW (.cap)
 * CaptureOne Cache (.cof, .cop, .cos)
 * Porst
 * Rawzor: .rwz
 * RED digital pictures: .r3d
 * Rollei RDC: .rdc
 * Samsung SRW
 * Sony ARW
 * Sony SRF
 * Sony SR2
 * 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.


 * dcraw
 * dcraw's list of other raw photo decoders
 * Konvertor
 * libopenraw
 * LibRaw
 * UFRaw
 * Netpbm: cameratopam
 * XnView
 * RawTherapee
 * Rawstudio
 * darktable
 * RawSpeed
 * ExifTool
 * Exiv2

Sample files

 * 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
 * HDR is stupid and it sucks
 * Samsung source code (including for their digital cameras)
 * How to photograph riots
 * World's first digital camera (1975)
 * OpenRAW - A mostly-defunct initiative to lobby for the documentation of RAW formats
 * The RAW Problem
 * Personal Digital Preservation: Photographs and Video