1.16. Lossless Compressed NEF (RAW)
NEF or RAW files can be quite large, since they contain all the available information about the image in a 12- or 14-bit file.
There has been much discussion about whether the previous version of NEF image file compression caused a loss of quality, or not. Nikon called it "visually lossless," since you weren't supposed to be able to see the difference between an image shot as a compressed file and one shot as an uncompressed file. However, some have claimed that highlight detail was affected somewhat by the compression.
Nikon solved that problem completely, by offering the normal Compressed, Uncompressed, and a completely new Lossless compressed selection under the Shooting Menu's NEF (RAW) recording "type" ...
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