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by jandrese 2031 days ago
The RAWs aren't compressible? Are they LZ encoded on the camera?
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RAW imagery I have worked with is about 25-50% losslessly compressible on average. Most of your gains in image compression are from quantizing the gamut in clever, (usually) imperceptible ways.

Raw imagery contains a lot of entropy that usually doesn't affect the appearance perceptually, but still has sig figs that frustrate compression.

My Fuji has lossless RAW compression and as far as I know quite a few others too.
I just tried compressing one with 7-zip ultra level compression. Saved maybe 5%. Wouldn't get even that with realtime compression.