Cameras and Digital Image Sensors

File Format
Name	Cameras and Digital Image Sensors
Ontology	Electronic File Formats Cameras and Digital Image Sensors
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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
• 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)
  • CaptureOne (.cap, .cof, .cop, .cos)
• Porst
• Rawzor: .rwz
• RED digital pictures: .r3d
• Rollei RDC: .rdc
• Samsung SRW
• Sony ARW
• Sony SRF
• Sony SR2 (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.

• 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