Why don't camcorders shoot raw?
Why don't camcorders shoot raw?
Lori Grunin Senior Editor / Advice
I've been reviewing hardware and software, devising testing methodology and handed out buying advice for what seems like forever; I'm currently absorbed by computers and gaming hardware, but previously spent many years concentrating on cameras. I've also volunteered with a cat rescue for over 15 years doing adoptions, designing marketing materials, managing volunteers and, of course, photographing cats.
Expertise Photography, PCs and laptops, gaming and gaming accessories
Maybe it's because I'm awash in a sea of DVD-, flash-, and hard-disk-based camcorders at the moment, but after staring at hour upon hour of artifact-ridden footage, I can't help but wonder why don't support some sort of raw recording. If you had a video stream straight from the sensor, you could work all sorts of software magic on it with little or no degradation before committing MPEG on it. Furthermore, by delaying the compression until it can be done by a real computer, it should yield better results. True, that would detract from some of the convenience, but I think there are ways around that as well.
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