My Casio Digital Camera has a hidden raw mode. I understand most digital cameras these days have raw mode. But the special combination of two buttons to press is a hidden feature. It is not documented by Casio. I found it on the web. The hidden key combination is SET and Flash buttons. You have to turn off the camera to get out of raw mode.
Most raw pictures are saved in TIFF format. Casio cameras save as TIFF files, but the use a special format for the TIFF files. Special, read: non-standard file. It is basically a TIFF file with some unneeded bits trimmed off the color of each pixel. That way each files is only 6M instead of the 9M it should be.
But being a special TIFF means that the file will not open in a lot of programs. But the site I re-found the shortcut keys, Steve's Digicams, also talks about a software product that can read these special TIFF files.
The software is IrfanView. It works very nicely to open and resave these files. It also has a lot of neat features. I like the full screen slide show with the file name.
The other thing you should know about this Casio camera and the raw TIFF files is that all the software from Casio completely ignores these files. That means they don't automatically download. They are created in a seperate directory on the CF card, called TIFF. You have to manually download the files. You have to manually delete the files, otherwise they will just continue taking up space on the card. The only way the camera can delete the files is if you reformat the card. But you can delete the files when you have the card connected (even in the camera by USB cable) to the computer. I suggest you do shift-delete in Wxindows, so Windows won't even think about trying to create an recycle bin on the card.
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Yeah, I've been using Irfanview for years.
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