SONY a7iv: Uncompressed RAW vs Lossless Comp (L) (M) (S) vs Compressed RAW

🛑Correction: Shooting in Lossless Comp also only gives you about 6fps (in any size L, M, S). Only shooting in Compressed are you able to get about 10fps.

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In today's video, I talk about the different Raw formats for photography. Find out the difference between Uncompressed Raw, Lossless Compress (L) (M) (S), and Compressed Raw and figure out which one you should use.

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Table of Contents
00:00 Intro
00:43 Types of Raw formats
01:56 Uncompressed Raw
02:27 Compressed Raw
02:44 Lossless Compressed Raw
03:10 Uncompressed vs Compressed vs Lossless Compressed
04:20 Which one should you use?
05:32 Different sizes of Lossless Compressed Raw (L) (M) (S)
06:24 Which one I use
06:46 Conclusion
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[MarioSoMedia]

Have you seen a difference between any of these Raw formats? 🤔
🛑Correction: Shooting in Lossless Comp also only gives you about 6fps (in any size L, M, S). Only shooting in Compressed are you able to get about 10fps.

[stripes_in_raw]

You have to be able to pull shadows and drop highlights in images to see a difference. When the subject is in shadow, when you are using spot metering to just keep sun rays hitting the eye of the subject, creative scenarios. You have to test in high contrast settings or in scenarios like in Wildlife and such. Perfectly exposed photos in balanced situations won't show any difference.

[rogerbeltz]

Thanks much for clarifying that one does not have to shoot everything in uncompressed RAW. Just saved some memory (and disk) space.

[jamieflood]

great video. I shoot in uncompressed raw as a wedding photographer. I change to compressed for the confetti shot. I find its the only time I need that amount of burst shooting.

[AECH_CH]

Lossless compressed - by definition can't be different. The file has to be identical after lightroom uncompresses it. At least for L.

[RussianSevereWeatherVideos]

Mind you that compressed M and S will have big issues in Lightroom when it comes to AI denoising and such. It is not available for those formats.

[churchill]

Last time I checked only compressed raw gives you 10 fps. All other raw is 6fps unless this was updated in the newest firmware.

[jamesjames]

Did you check to see which formats include a high resolution embedded JPEG for previews?
I noticed uncompressed raw doesnt' include that..but compressed raw does. I didnt check if the lossless ones include a high resolution jpeg

[ChannyTao]

How do you even open Sony loseless compressed m? I can't import it into my Lightroom or view the image in anyway

[mahdisadeghi]

I have important question, new update a7iv 1.11 can improve overheating problem?