Format | RAF | GIF |
Company | Fuji | Graphics Interchange Format |
Description | Uncompressed RAW photograph taken with a Fuji digital camera. It stores image information exactly how it was captured by the camera sensor, with no compression or color adjustment. | GIF is limited to an 8-bit palette, or 256 colors. This makes the GIF format suitable for storing graphics with relatively few colors such as simple diagrams, shapes, logos and cartoon style images. The GIF format supports animation and is still widely used to provide image animation effects. It also uses a lossless compression that is more effective when large areas have a single color, and ineffective for detailed images or dithered images. |
Benefits | Not processed in any ways and it gives more flexibility to correct any problems of color balance, exposure etc. | lossless |
Drawbacks | Large size. not many programs handle it | 256 colors and large files |
Professional photo conversion and processing. | |
Used by photographers (amateur and professional), design studios, architects, large organizations (NASA, IBM, Chrysler, University hospitals). | |
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