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This is not a good place to simply share cool photos/videos or promote your own work and projects, but rather a place to discuss photography as an art and post things that would be of interest to other photographers.

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unable to upload RAW photos on instagram anyone know why this is happening? (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by chillguywithnoname@alien.top to c/photography@viewfinder.pro

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wanting to upload RAW photos but am being met with pink error screen when clicking next when it shows a preview on the app. i’ve never had an issue in the past shooting raw and uploading to IG, does anyone know or is having issues uploading?

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[–] graesen@alien.top 2 points 11 months ago

Maybe you should learn what a raw photo is first... And perhaps stop shooting in raw until you do...

[–] Karl_with_a_C@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Why would you expect Instagram to support RAW uploads?

[–] Over-Tonight-9929@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Who uploads RAWs? 🤔

[–] shig@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Raws don't look a certain way - they're just sensor data. Any time you're looking at a picture, you're looking at raw data that has gone through extensive processing e.g. demosaicing, mapping from 12-14 bit down to 8 bit etc

[–] keep_trying_username@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

JPEG is a standard format used by many cameras and cell phones, and a JPEG image should be rendered the same by any software that supports JPEG.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JPEG

RAW formats are specific to each camera manufacturer and can even vary from one camera model to another. Each of these raw formats needs a different algorithm to decode the image.

The following wiki page shows that there are over 30 raw image formats. Some companies such as Canon, Sony, Hasselblad, Leica and Panasonic use (or have used) more than one raw format.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raw_image_format

[–] mrfixitx@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

No social media platforms support raw by default to knowledge. Convert to JPEG then upload.

[–] Sweathog1016@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Reminds me. I’ve got all these negatives from old vacation photos. But nobody seems interested when I share my past travels.

[–] ColinShootsFilm@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

lol do you have any idea why you’re shooting raw?