What is the difference between .arw and .png?
- Extension
- .arw
- .png
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Camera
- Raster Image
- Developer
- Sony
- PNG Development Group
- 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.
- A PNG file is an image file stored in the Portable Network Graphic (PNG) format. It contains a bitmap of indexed colors and uses lossless compression, similar to a .GIF file but without copyright limitations. PNG files are commonly used to store graphics for web images.
- MIME Type
- image/x-sony-arw
- image/png
- Sample
- sample.arw
- sample.png
- Wikipedia
- .png on Wikipedia