- Extension
- .arw
- .vips
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Camera
- Raster Image
- Developer
- Sony
- VIPS (Visual Information Processing System)
- 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.
- VIPS is a libvips file format mainly used for calculations, but it can also store images. The main advantage is that it has no size limit; it's fast and straightforward. Nonetheless, most applications can't view it, so converting it to a more popular format is the only way to work around it.
- MIME Type
- image/x-sony-arw
- image/vnd.vips
