On Tue, 23 Oct 2007 11:19:33 +0100, "Trev"
trevbowdenAT.dsl.pipex.COM wrote:
There is a .raw

Yes.

but its not a camera raw format

Wrong, it *might* be. Panasonic cameras use .raw as a file
extension for their camera raw files.

and existed long before
digital cameras.

Yes, it did. It's never wise to trust a file extension to
identify a file type without checking the contents.

--
John Bean