Comments on: What is sRaw? Canon 40D sRaw files, what are sRaw files used for?

By: AfterCapture Blog » Who the Heck Uses the sRAW Format???

AfterCapture Blog » Who the Heck Uses the sRAW Format??? — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 14:21:12 +0000

[...] October 25, 2007, Chris Ridley of 11thStudio Photography posted this on his blog: “sRaw is quite simply is a small version of a standard RAW file, roughly ¼ the size. This sRaw [...]

By: Chris Ridley

Chris Ridley — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 11:27:36 +0000

Thanks for the addition Alan

By: Alanfromvictoria

Alanfromvictoria — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 17:35:40 +0000

Just a word of warning, I just got back from a trip where I took over 3000 photos and took some in sRAW for all the reasons mentioned in the article. However, the sRAW format isn’t supported by Apple, so suprise to me when I tried to open them in Aperture. Canon’s supplied software (I have the 40D and love it) will open the files fine, but not Aperture or presumably iPhoto. Search Apple’s support site for this article: TA25114 . It’s too bad, but now you know.

By: Chris Ridley

Chris Ridley — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 13:31:05 +0000

MG, I’ have noted your comment within the quoted text above, hopefully someone else will verify, thanks for getting in contact

By: mg

mg — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 13:16:19 +0000

That’s nonsense. First of all by taking binning 4 pixels into 1 RGB pixel, all you’re doing is binning two green pixels, only reducing the amount of data by 25%.

Secondly this wont work very well – due to the spacial differences between the different coloured pixels you will get colour artifacts at edges, if the edge falls in the middle of a rgbg pixel block.

By: Animol

Animol — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 22:04:37 +0000

Thx dude for answer, I was just wondering about that myself.

By: sobacat

sobacat — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 20:16:12 +0000

Thanks! Saved me some time. I got my 40D for Xmas and noticed the sRAW option immediately.

Since it is limited to 4×6 prints, is it appreciably better than JPEG, considering the hassle-factor of converting to JPEG for photo sharing and processing with 3rd party vendors like Shutterfly.

Happy New Year.

By: Nick

Nick — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 17:24:35 +0000

Lightroom 1.3.1 supports sRaw

By: admin

admin — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 23:39:15 +0000

Clint, what do you use to view normal RAW files?

By: clint

clint — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 23:18:32 +0000

still nothing to open them though… unless i’m missing something?

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 12:42:38 +0000

Just got a 40D, cheers, save me some time searching the net

By: Chris

Chris — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 20:19:29 +0000

Cheers, I just got myself a Cannon 40D and was wondering about that too.