JPEG or RAW photo format

[John20212]

Is the 1020 going to save the photos in RAW format? From what I read/heard it will be only JPEG which is kind of a shame.

 

[JustToClarify]

Juha(the most important man behind this phone) said no which means no

 

[MAERSK]

Imagine how many pics you could store if it did support RAW? Not much especially with only ~28GB of storage.

 

[Michael Spencer]

Would be nice to have RAW option hidden away somewhere.

Particularly given GSMArena's preview has suggested 1020 has less natural imaging process.

Can't please everyone.

 

[Reflexx]

Maybe when 128GB becomes standard for phones.

 

[John20212]

While you could take far less photos in RAW with only 32gb memory, I think a lot of people would still like the option to do it even if it meant more frequent Phone-PC syncs to empty the memory.

I hope Nokia enables an option to produce in RAW format in a future update.

 

[Michael Spencer]

Forget slower processing on the phone - heck my i7 laptop would struggle with 41MP raw file!

5MP raw would be interesting - provided it doesn't clash with supersampling.

 

[DBDev]

A 41MP RAW file! That should be huge! The RAW files from my 12MP Canon EOS 1100d are typically about 17MB large, so a 41MP should probably be about 58MB! I don't think a phone could be able to handle a file that large.

 

[anon(5335899)]

Is the 1020 going to save the photos in RAW format? From what I read/heard it will be only JPEG which is kind of a shame.

A RAW 36MP image (the largest you can have on the 1020) would not fit as it will be substantially larger than the 32 GB total available storage on the phone.