Are you a teacher? Or were before YT? I am a photographer for 8 years, I watch like dozen of YT channels in French or English, you are definitely the best one to explain any basic or complicated things to the audience.
You are a rock star. This was super helpful. I’m shooting lossless uncompressed, but I’m switching to lossless compressed immediately. No need for those 57 meg shots.
I follow you for over 1 year and half and I LOVE you each time I watch a new video… not kidding! you’re the most fun and with rich information to watch!!!! keep up 💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻
You are consistently the most thorough RU-vid photographer. I am delighted when I have a question and a google search brings me to a video you made. It almost always is answered thoroughly.
Your videos are absolutely stellar! Sure I learn from many Fuji vids and tutorials on RU-vid, but yours are always where I learn the most information in the shortest amount of time, and walking away actually knowing something that sticks in my brain. Thank you for your efforts and attention to detail. You really know how to relate essential information without useless fillers. I wish more RU-vidrs delivered information the way you do. Keep on Rockin (in a free world?)!
I've seen dozens of your video, and just now I was realizing a thing: you gesticulate like and more than an Italian 😅 Thanks, you're the best on youtube.
Excellent video! I've just purchased an gfx100s and so file management has become more important than ever. This was super helpful, thank you so much for the content as always!
the only difference i've seen between lossless compressed and uncompressed in fujifilm files is that uncompressed files have a jpeg built in so that there is a preview on Mac computers even if the camera is unsupported by Mac firmware (lke the XT3).
The other week I was wondering why Fujifilm X-T2 files are so much bigger than Nikon D750 files, and someone on Reddit explained that Nikon uses lossless compression. It made me look for an option to turn that on in my Fuji and I’m so glad I found it. I wish I had been shooting with lossless compression since I got my X-T1 over 5 years ago. Would have saved so much hard drive space.
Oh, Chris, again such a very great video. I never used any other than lossless compressed in Nikon and Fuji, but I enjoyed your lesson so much again. Another look? No glasses and another haircut! Looks a littler strange at first minutes. Happy weekend. Uwe
Great video as usual, so thank you once again. One thing you didn't mention in this video which I caught in another video of yours was that the Mac Finder cannot display Lossless Compressed RAW files. That's a pretty big deal for me as I like to be able to see what I have in Finder. Having seen this video before, I concluded the only way to view my RAW images in the Mac Finder was to include a jpeg. Turns out, as long as I use Uncompressed RAW, I can view those files easily in Finder without the need for the jpeg. Looking forward to your return. Enjoy your break!
Another fantastic video. When reading the title, I didn't think this would be applicable to me, but as usual, I end up learning a lot from your content. Thank you!
Silkypix Developer Studio Pro 10 is the best software to edit Fujifilm. Because, they are the company that created the Fujifilm X Converter. Also the company behind Nikon, Panasonic, Pantex raw converter. Highly recommended.
Does it make a difference converting any version of the raw files to DNG for editing? Is the same data available, such as when a file is under/over-exposed?
Another great post from the most entertaining and informative guy on RU-vid. I’ve no idea where you find the time for such detailed, thorough analyses, but thank you for doing so. Saves me the effort and time. Just switched my x-h1 to lossless and will see how it goes.
Thx for testing this! And I keep shooting in uncompressed raw, just like you said: storage is cheap. AND thx also for testing the life span of your mechanical shutter 🙃🤪
One difference between compressed and uncompressed is both iOS and MacOS doesn’t support displaying Compressed RAF files, and PhotoMechanic can’t write to them either if you’ve set it up to write to Raw, it writes to XMP sidecar files instead. Fortunately Exiftool does.
Excellent video !! I always take my photos uncompressed, because I rarely fill my Sd card before having transferred my images to my computer. I must admit when I saw your video, I thought it was in 8k, well no, it was only an optical illusion after your beautiful haircut :-).
One major downside with compressed files. There's no preview available when using Mac OS. And I prefer to sort out the images before importing all of them to Capture One.
One thing I considered was that if you use the Fuji only version of Capture One and you want to convert to DNG first using additional software you stuck because C1 for Fuji only won't edit DNG files.
That was so helpful...will have to watch it again (dogs and family at suppertime can be distracting...grin) Raw compressed lossless sounds interesrting...🤔 So far have been leaving the XT4 and the X100v on jpeg + raw uncompressed, but thinking of changing the X100V to just jpeg...maybe...go back and forth on that)
Firstly, I need to say that thank you for these kind of videos of yours to make people got informed; I saw your videos just a while ago and writing my first comment here. I actually was wondering what's the difference between that three options, in my previous one x-t20 (there were two though in that device) and currently my new x-e4. Indeed, i watched a video about it a couple of years ago but it wasn't as this detailed, honestly. So, your video is definitely clear to understand and really helpful. Did I thank you before? :) Stay safe!
I don’t understand why repeated opening of a compressed file would lower quality. It makes sense with jpgs since the application used to open/close the file is doing compression, but when shooting compressed, the camera is doing the compression of the raw file. Computer software should not be making any changes to a raw file at all, correct? The file data is left as is and an attached instruction set records changes. So why would a compressed raw file change?
Man oh man some deep deep research done here Chris ! I shoot raw uncompressed, don't know how or why I do that, but it seems I am on the right track. Storage doesn't really become much of an issue with the cost of storage these days. How do you find time to do this ? Completely understand now why you want to do this full time.
I’m video guy so I have ton of fastest SD cards and never bothered about stills file sizes. But lossless compression seems legit. Interesting why “compressed” files has the only flaw in this video and also mostly identical with “lossless compressed” in file sizes, but Fuji sells it like feature of their flagship X-T4 camera
a real test would be comparing the different compression formats on real-world pictures. Such as : fine foliage, grass , cat fur and so on. Only with difficult situation you would be able to see the difference between lossless and lossy compression.
Great video again. One piece of additional information, for X-S10 users: lossy compressed files are still not recognized by ON1 RAW (Windows) including in the latest version released yesterday. Not sure about Mac versions and X-T4.
at 6:45 you can clearly see that lossless compressed has much more details than Uncompressed(pre dng segment),you will also notice that after saving raws as dng's
Telling test results. I always shoot uncompressed RAW. Is there an effect on JPGs based on type of RAW? (Nice haircut, BTW. Signs of being po’d or constipated?)
Have you tried “Affinity” I use it to post process my X-T3 files. Compressed and non Compressed it works fine and is a lower cost alternative to Lightroom and Capture one
Your video are always so interesting! So if I understand well the % difference of the size of a picture taken uncompressed versus lossless compressed will depend of the picture? If I take a picture of uniform color scene, the % of the difference between uncompressed versus lossless compressed will be more important that if it is a scene that contain lots of different colors?
I know this is an old video, but the purple fringing in the compressed image at 9:30 is probably because the light on the right is active in only that image!
What about the ability of Apple OS being able to read the lossless compressed files? In the past, I tried shooting in lossless compressed format but Finder could not translate it. So, I could not see the image in the column view. Accordingly, I have been shooting uncompressed. Is that still necessary?
Have always used uncompressed raw and never had a issue, i like to keep my files small to improve workflow and storage. Have you done a video on DNG files and if you should use them for editing and strorage?
Thank you so much! I’ve learned a lot. I have a few questions. I definitely like the idea of shooting compressed lossless for the space savings but I use a Mac and IOS For photo editing raw photos and they won’t open up the compressed files with the software I use. I wouldn’t mind using a workaround if there was a way to convert Raws from compressed to uncompressed and vice versa as an alternative. What would you suggest? Any thoughts? Because I love the idea of raw editing using affinity photo and pixelmator on my iPad for some quick edits to come close to how I would edit on say capture one. It’s not the same but it allows me to start my photos remotely before a get to a computer.
I definitely shoot uncompressed raw which gives you a little bit more data and that is because I am a landscape shooter and you need every little bit of data you can get because you need dynamic range and there is more data in the landscape photo than most of the photos when you're editing so for me, I shoot lost less raw, which does mean bigger file sizes. I can definitely tell in landscape photography, but I found it hard to tell in Street, Photography and portraits but definitely in landscape. She want as much data as you can and I'm a semi professional landscape shooter. Wow not full-time professional, but I'd still lots of images and do lots of printing say I want as much data as I can. What you didn't do, though and I have done is print and I'm talking large Prince of 1 m x 50 cm. If you do a very large print I guarantee you will notice a difference in image quality and that's why I shoot uncompressed raw and I did the same with Nikon as well when I was with Nikon. Yes it probably doesn't make any difference for a social media post because people are looking at their photos on phones and tablets and so forth you're not going to see any difference but if you're going to be doing large prints, then you will see a difference but 90% of photography isn't printed so probably 95 so if you're not printing then go with lossless or compressed nice, haircut to dude.....ha ha
I guess the transfer/writing process depends also of the speed writing of th SD card, no ? If so, what was the speed writing of yor SD card ? Alos does the difference bewteen un.compressed is likely to affect the format and the cropped possibity of a printing photo, no ?
Great video, and still the only detailed comparison of the three versions of raw out there. Though, I'd disagree with the conclusion for Capture One users like me (given that the software is fully supported by Fujifilm). Keeping in mind that burst mode high speed fps is very limited with the big X-T5 files, compressed would be the best choice in the situation where you need to keep the speed up for 3-4 seconds to fully capture a developing action scene. Explaining to the client why the buffer lagged too soon is not a good excuse. Compressed will give you nearly twice the time/shots at full fps compared to lossless, and uncompressed is even slower. There is no good argument for uncompressed - if you're worried about legacy in the 23rd century, simply convert everything to DNG and build a time capsule. (But don't be so sure that DNG outlives RAF support... the future might be very different!)
Has to be uncompressed all the way for me because Apple does not recognise compressed . Although I do zero editing in Apple Photos I do use it for all my ‘cataloguing . The cross device sync is outstanding as is also the iCloud storage . Apple photos actually makes a remarkably good job of reading Fuji raw files .
Please can you help me? I have a Fuji XT4 and absolutely love the user experience particularly after my previous Canon gear. However I am unable to load raw files to my ageing (2011 Intel) Imac 21”, only jpegs! I have watched your video on using the different raw options but whatever I do all I get is a blank thumbnail instead of a raw image and the conventional jpeg sat next to it on the iPhotos download screen. I have looked for help elsewhere on line and reached the conclusion that my iMac is too old and hasn’t therefore been able to receive the latest patches that will let Fuji and Apple talk to each other? I have also watched videos on downloading a third party file conversion software but yes, you guessed it, the old iMac won’t receive these either. So, if I’m to replace the old computer with a new one will it load Fuji raw files straight out of the box or will I still need to find new software to make this happen? I have watched all of your XT4 instructional videos and learned so much from them but this one problem persists and reduces the effectiveness of my post editing efforts. Thanks. Michael
