On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 11:20:33AM +0200, Toralf Lund wrote: > Cory Papenfuss wrote: > > I've also been thinking that they should not really call it RAW, by the > way. A "raw" image file is traditionally a file containing the pixel > data and nothing else.
That's an interesting assertion. The term "raw" really didn't come into widespread use until digital cameras became commonplace, and almost every so-called "raw" file from a digital camera contains a whole lot of other metadata besides the raw sensor values.
