Cameras and Digital Image Sensors
From Just Solve the File Format Problem
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
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Raw image formats
(Unprocessed 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
- CHDK raw: (Older-style CHDK RAW files)
- DNG (Digital Negative): .dng (Adobe)
- Epson ERF
- Fujifilm RAF
- 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: .cap, .iiq, .eip
- 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
- 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
- Konvertor
- libopenraw
- LibRaw
- UFRaw
- Netpbm: cameratopam
- XnView
- RawTherapee
- Rawstudio
- ExifTool
- Exiv2
Sample files
- Raw Samples: sample files from many digital camera formats
- https://github.com/drewnoakes/metadata-extractor-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
- Personal Digital Preservation: Photographs and Video
