Canon R6 RAW vs C-RAW extension display

[Matsaly]

Hi,

I'm relatively new to my R6 and am a bit confused about how the selected RAW format is displayed. For example- When i shoot in RAW my images are displayed with the extension .CR3 and are about 22 mb file size. When. I select C-RAW the images are also displayed with the same extension .CR3 and are about 15 mb file size.

Is this "normal" behavior?

I would assume the smaller file size are the C-RAW images but find it a bit disconcerting that Canon would use the same extension for an uncompressed and compressed file.

Any help is appreciated.

 

[JayAy]

Yes this is normal. There's no need to use different file extensions as the information within the .CR3 file structure tells the software opening the file how it is encoded.

 

[Matsaly]

Thank you for the help. I now understand that the extension designation .CR3 emcompasses regular compressed RAW files as well as lossy C-RAW files.