Is this why my camera can't do raw?

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I have a cheapo Kodak CX7300, anyway I know it captures to intermedia
bmp files on the memory, so that it can snap away while still
processing the last file.

But there's no mode to just keep the bmp file for maybe special
photographs that you don't want any jpeg artifacting in.

I suspect the option would be there if bmp wasn't a M$ owned format!

I guess I could try yanking out the batteries just after taking the
photo, and the bmp would be left in the memory, but it's probably not a
great idea.

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Darkfalz.Usenet@gmail.com wrote:
> I have a cheapo Kodak CX7300, anyway I know it captures to intermedia
> bmp files on the memory, so that it can snap away while still
> processing the last file.
>
> But there's no mode to just keep the bmp file for maybe special
> photographs that you don't want any jpeg artifacting in.
>
> I suspect the option would be there if bmp wasn't a M$ owned format!
>
> I guess I could try yanking out the batteries just after taking the
> photo, and the bmp would be left in the memory, but it's probably not a
> great idea.
>

RAW's like BMP in that it's a noncompressed format. However, it's not
"finished"-- the RAW typically needs a little tweaking for best
appearance propr to conversion to JPEG. It's probably not BMP.

For most people with a lower-end P&S camera, there isn't the need for
the perfect artifact-free pics-- the idiot-proofness of not having raw
files as an option and the space savings by always going for the
efficient JPEG format (for my camera, the typical res JPEG's 800k, vs. a
raw file of ~3Mb) gets picked instead.