It's lossless compression so it should make no difference to the
images, just the files size and thus how many images fit on the
storage card.

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Joan
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"ftran999" wrote in message
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: However, the complicate things further, lurking on the Nikonian.org
site, I
: discovered that the D80 uses a compressed RAW format while the D200
uses a
: non compressed format. What I am going to do is wait awhile for
various
: review sites to do comparisons between the two cameras. I would
like to see
: them specifically address the compressed vs non compressed RAW
issue.
:
: w.
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