Minolta MRW

File Format
Name	Minolta MRW
Ontology	Electronic File Formats Cameras and Digital Image Sensors Minolta MRW
Extension(s)	.mrw

MRW (Minolta RAW) is a raw image format used by Minolta (later Konica-Minolta) cameras. After the Sony purchase, Sony branded SLR use a different format: ARW.

Identification

Files start with bytes 00 4d 52 4d.

Specifications

• Dalibor Jelinek's documentation
• Stephane Chauveau documentation
• Cedric Rousseau documentation from one of the developers of DxO

Software

• See also Cameras and Digital Image Sensors: Software
• ImageCooker

Sample files

• RAW-Samples: Minolta
• http://digikam3rdparty.free.fr/TEST_IMAGES/ → RAW/HORIZONTAL/, RAW/VERTICAL/, NOISE/, METADATA/digiKam/, TestRotation/