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RAW les contain a le header which conveys
the byte orderingof the le, a le identier and
an offset into the main le data, camera sensor
size, and color prole map of the Bayer pattern
Color Filter Array (CFA) required to assign dis-
crete colors to the sensor image data. They also
contain image metadata required including expo-
sure settings, camera and lens model, date, time,
and place, authoring information, and an image
thumbnail (a JPEG or other temp conversion of
the image), which is used to view the le on the
camera’s viewnder.
TIFF – Tagged Image File Format
TIFF is an image le format for storing raster ...