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Anonymous
Two Small Raw Formats - who cares?
You'd have to be a real idiot to care about smaller pixel size raw files. These give you lower resolution with larger file sizes than JPG!
Canon calls these dopey things "sRAW," and in the 50D, sRAW1 and sRAW2.
sRAW1 is 7.1 megapixels with a file size that is still at least 75% the size of a bloated regular raw image.
In sRAW2, resolution is piddly 3.8 megapixels, but still half the file size of a huge raw image.
Sadly, Canon lets idiots be idiots and use these settings even in the Basic Zone dummy settings. Back in the good old days, Canon set basic settings so people couldn't screw them up this way.
To keep my hate mail files manageable, I will add that these sRAW formats exist not for photographers, but for computer nerds who prefer jacking around on their computers to getting outdoors and actually photographing. sRAW files are fatter than JPGs, but have even lower resolution.
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