RAW or CRAW?

[Archibald]

HEIF. Why should it gain more traction?

 

[Only RF]

So why doesn't HIEF gain more traction? All modern Canon cameras have it. Yes I use C-Raw. For long term storage I use JPG. Almost three decades of pictures. RJ

I don’t know anything about HIEF. I’ve heard about it. I’ll look it up.

 

[Dean Wilson]

So why doesn't HIEF gain more traction? All modern Canon cameras have it. Yes I use C-Raw. For long term storage I use JPG. Almost three decades of pictures. RJ

Because HEIF is not generally supported by legacy OS's, and other programs without converting them. Lot's of folks are still using Windows 10 and probably some XP users out there as well.

Windows - 62.67%
macOS - 15.31%
OS X - 11.6%
Linux - 8.88%
Chrome 1.53%
FreeBSD 0%

source

Of those Windows users:

Windows 11: 68.6%
Legacy
Windows 10: 30.14%
Windows 7: 0.96%
Windows XP: 0.14%
Windows 8.1: 0.11%
Windows 8: 0.03%

macOS is a bit harder to locate accurate stats as to how many users per OS's.

 

[tpatana]

Reminds me of this comic

Standards

xkcd.com