That would also likely imply that Sony needs to update the ARW spec (from 2.3 or 2.3.1, whatever the current version is) as no software would understand how to handle the RAW file.
-Tim
Matt Grum wrote: Tariq Gibran wrote:
I don\'t know why or how they could get a lossless compression algorithm wrong when they already have one which they used on the older cameras (such as the A900). I suspect it\'s a hardware limitation as Tim suggests.
I found the original a900 manual and there is no lossless RAW option, and given the a900 RAWs I\'ve found have been uncompressed I don\'t think Sony have ever offered lossless compression, so they would have to go and develop it from scratch (or rather develop an implementation from scratch, there are plenty of algorithms out there to choose from) so it\'s looking even less likely we\'ll see lossless in this firmware update.
Free doughnuts is still on the cards though.
Sep 17, 2015 at 10:59 AM
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