Nikon D300 User Manual page 126

▪ Requires post-processing by special proprietary software
as provided by the camera manufacturer or third-party
software programmers.
▪ Larger file sizes (so you must have large storage media).
▪ No accepted industry-standard RAW format. Each
camera manufacturer has its own proprietary format.
Adobe has a RAW format called DNG (Digital
Negative) that might become an industry standard. We'll
see!
▪ Industry standard for printing is 8-bit files, not 12-bit or
14-bit files.
Now, let's examine the most popular format on the planet,
JPEG.
JPEG Image Quality Format
As shown in
JPEG modes. Each mode affects the final quality of the
image. Let's look at each mode in detail:
▪ JPEG fine
▪ JPEG normal
▪ JPEG basic
Each JPEG mode provides a certain level of "lossy" image
compression. The human eye compensates for small color
changes quite well, so the JPEG compression algorithm
Figure 3-10, image 2, the D300(S) has three
(Compression approximately 1:4)
(Compression approximately 1:8)
(Compression approximately 1:16)
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