Do you CRAW or RAW for cameras with the choice?

[AlanF]

It has been proposed that less than 10% use CRAW in the recent cameras that have this facility. So, what is the reality?

 

[candyman]

I use RAW exclusively. But that may have to do with the fact that my cameras have 20 and 26 megapixel sensors. I don't think it's necessary to use CRAW. Perhaps I would switch to CRAW if I owned the R5 (so higher number of megapixels on the sensor)

 

[SHAMwow]

Just RAW, and I currently shoot on an R5. I just personally had a lot of issues with the speed of opening and editing the CRAW format in Lightroom on my machine. I know others reported they didn't but that was my experience. And I'd say a small bit of it is I paid all this money for this camera/sensor, may as well get all I can from it, perceptible or not.

 

[koenkooi]

I’m mostly cRAW, but for things in very low light I switch to RAW. I can see a noticeable difference with deepPRIME variants between cRAW and regular RAW.
But that’s the only instance where I can notice it.

On the R8 cRAW doubles the anemic buffer, making it a much more practical camera.

 

[Del Paso]

Never used anything else than RAW with my Canons.
But I use "DNG compressed" with my Leica M (according to Leica's official statement fully lossless). Whether true or not, I don't know...
What I know is that Leica offers the choice between "lossy" and "lossless" DNG compression, saying that old software editors could be in trouble with "lossless" compression.

 

[shire_guy]

I only ever use RAW and currently have the R5 and M50.
The simple reason why I currently choose RAW over cRAW is that my in camera and PC storage are adequate to house my RAW images.

 

[koenkooi]

I only ever use RAW and currently have the R5 and M50.
The simple reason why I currently choose RAW over cRAW is that my in camera and PC storage are adequate to house my RAW images.

On the M50 I used cRAW to get more shots in a burst. The R5 has a much better sized buffer.

 

[Aussie shooter]

Shoot Canon and only use Craw now on the R6. RAW on the 7d2. The quality of the r6 files is outstanding in craw including shooting aurora and milky way.

 

[Michael Clark]

It has been proposed that less than 10% use CRAW in the recent cameras that have this facility. So, what is the reality?

I don't currently have any cameras capable of shooting C-RAW. If I did I would shoot C-RAW most of the time except when in very low light.

 

[P-visie]

I shoot only raw. With CR3 file sizes are (much) smaller than CR2, where files of 80 to 100+ MB from the 5Ds R where no exception.