Canon Patent Describes Tech to Choose Between JPEG and RAW For You

Canon Patent Describes Tech to Choose Between JPEG and RAW For You

RAW or JPEG? JPEG or RAW? Too. Many. Decisions. Fortunately, a new Canon patent suggests technology that could make that choice for you.Discovered by Egami, the patent explains a feature for DSLRs that could, if you wanted it to, automate the choice between JPEG and RAW file types. The idea is simple: when acquiring hundreds of images, it pays to save the best ones as RAW and the less good ones as JPEGs, but nobody has the time to do that by hand.