Ario, I have been shooting Minolta/Sony digital cameras since they got into this game back in the A1-2 days....... Shot RAW once it was available and continued shooting that format with DSLR's, DSLT's, NEX and now the A7FF line(I have only wandered outside of Sony with a Sigma DP2m for pano's)..... the cRAW has been their primary RAW format since the a900 and you know what? I cannot recall even one thread in the SLT/SLR Sony forums nor the NEX forums TILL the introduction of the A7x line and interest came from users of other camera lines...... not one stinking thread!!!!!!Problems arising from the lossy compression used by Sony do not show up in every shot, this is well known, so the fact that you have not seen any substantial advantage using the uncompressed option, proves nearly nothing. For my shots I prefer to stay on the safe side, I have plenty of SD's and storage space. BTW the issue was not just BS.
I guess us ole dumb Minolta/Sony guy's just don't know what a good image looks like..... Funny I make a mighty good living shooting cRAW for a dumb ole ignorant A or E mount shooting Pro.
Thousands upon thousands of images have run through my post processing and printing and I have not once seen the issues all the BS was about on the web nor have my customers made mention of these....... I guess one needs to shoot for proper exposure and do what we get paid to do to make this a non issue in real life imaging. So for those who don't shoot and process properly I guess it is a issue for them but nothing a lesson or two in photography won't fix. My bet is after 6 months less than .05% of Sony using photographers will continue to use uncompressed RAW files....... Lossless Compression (which sounds like the best of both worlds though I have never used it)when made available in future Sony lines will replace the current cRAW and then uncompressed will die on the vine as it did with the a900 and once again disappear.
Vivek, I shoot what works for me and pays my bills..... I picked Minolta when Nikon wasn't even in the digital game and stuck with Sony because of the volume of gear I have and it still works very well for me...... if that is being a Sony Superfan in your eye's then so be it. I call it calling it as I see it........ from the eye's of a longtime Minolta/Sony gear user. This whole cRaw/Raw issue I guess might have relevance to someone shooting specific subjects like star trails or maybe even highly backlit stain glass windows but you know what?...... I have never made one single cent shooting either of these and never will as there isn't much demand or earnings available for such images and if there ever comes a time I need such shots there and many very easily achieved workarounds with cRAW that will get the job done as well or better than a lossless compression/ or uncompressed formats. But, Vivek you and I have seen each other on web forums for many years... I know your perspectives and you know mine............. We are very different in our thoughts and our likes but that is what makes the world go round as it would be boring if we all liked the same things...... It truthfully makes absolutely no difference to me what anyone else shoots or floats their boat... I don't care what other brands have or don't have as I am too old to change brands now...... what bothers me is people coming from other brands complaining that Sony cameras are not like the camera's they are leaving. If they like the other brands features so much go back and shoot them..... but they should not make up absurd criteria to visualize a defect that is outside the design intent of the product's intended purpose or any similar products design intent.
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