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> How raw is raw?

Certainly no jpeg image produced by any digital camera is really “raw” as it will already have been through a debayering filter

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayer_filter

And then on top of that is the JPEG compression artifacts.

But I do wonder how many raw files also contain data that has been debayered already. I have not looked into that.

I know that with third party firmware such as Magic Lantern it is possible to get the image data without debayering. https://magiclantern.fm/

Likewise I know that the Camera Module 3 for Raspberry Pi is possible to retrieve the image data from without debayering.


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