Professional Digital Cameras Wikipedia
a compact digital camera with the .raw format avaialble?
Hi, I’m looking for a digital camera with the .raw format available when taking your pictures.
1) I realize .jpeg files have their quality lessened, so i want to confirm: Does this really affect image quality? Is this important to a professional photographer, that images should be captured into .RAW file as opposed to .JPEG?
2) If this is the case, then most compact cameras (if not, pretty much all) only have the .JPEG format. Can you reccommend me a compact camera that has the RAW or TIFF format avaialble?
By compact, I mean the ones that are not bulky (you know those big black ones most photographers use), sorry i do not know the terms.
I found this one:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canon_DIGITAL_IXUS
But it’s quite an old model. Can you guys recommend me a newer one with preferably around 10 megapixels?
1) The quality difference will be noticeable if you plan on doing enlargements of your photo. You will also noticed a difference in clariy and contrast. Most photographers shoot in RAW because you can always convert it to JPEG later.
2) Most compact cameras cannot handle the size of RAW format photos. They are considerably larger file sizes because they do not compress the image what so ever. Take that into consideration. Some cameras will be slower when taking RAW format photos. My Olympus SP510 was useless when taking RAW photos.
Here are some that I found searching google, not sure how good they are:
Fuji E900
Canon PS S7
Panasonic Lumix DMC-LX1
Ricoh GRD
Canon Powershot G8
Sony DSC-R1
Panasonic LX2
Fuji 810
Olympus SP-350
The larger black cameras are called SLR’s (or DSLR if we’re talking about digital). 
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