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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BackdoorArts" data-source="post: 294499" data-attributes="member: 9240">Nothing new here.  You can always go longer with smaller file sizes, which is what all that he's doing here.  But it comes at a (potential) price in terms of image quality.  How much of a quality difference you get between 14-bit lossless RAW and 12-bit compressed RAW is a subject of debate in many forums (my take is that in extreme lighting you lose some IQ), so sure, it's a way of getting more frames before it fills.  But it's still just a band-aid over a wound that was designed into the camera (or more correctly, not addressed from the previous version).  If you don't shoot wildlife or sports predominantly than it's a perfectly viable workaround.  If that's your bread and butter, it's a compromise, and you should never have to compromise on a new tool.</blockquote>