What is the difference between .arw and .g4?
- Extension
- .arw
- .g4
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Camera
- Fax
- Developer
- Sony
- Computer Fax Systems (CFS)
- Description
- Digital photograph captured by a Sony digital camera, and based on the TIFF specification; contains raw, uncompressed image data as captured by the camera's CCD; can be adjusted using image-editing software before exporting to common raster formats such as .JPG or .TIFF.
- Group 4 (G4) used for black and white lossless compression to maintain high-quality images, commonly used in TIFF format compression by fax machines. A picture is seen as black dots and lines on a blank page; the fewer the dots and lines are, the lesser the file size.
- MIME Type
- image/x-sony-arw
- image/g4fax
- Sample
- sample.arw