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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BackdoorArts" data-source="post: 144730" data-attributes="member: 9240">The reason you get crispness with a BMP is that it's a direct conversion to, well, a bitmap.  No compression, no further interpretation.  But once you're there, it's a pure graphics file that will let you interpret down fairly easily, but not anywhere else.  I've been playing with them since Paint came out on the first Windows machines.  It's a basic color to bitmap representation, which is fine for a one time conversion, but after that, IMHO, you're screwed - at least when compared to other formats.Again, if it wasn't so, somebody with a name in the game would be using it.  I'm not budging from RAW, so it matters not to me.  I want that information preserved.  Otherwise I'd using be using something other than a camera to paint my pictures.</blockquote>