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I have the a6000 and have been using it for almost a year now, and I love it. This weekend, I have been going through old photos, and purging those images that I don't need. While toying around with lossless editing tools, I noticed that many of my images have an additional 500KB to 1MB of "junk" attached to the end of the JPEG image's data stream. I say "junk" because I have no idea what this data is. I imagine it is "metadata", but that much? Using some lossless editing tools, I have been able to safely strip this data off. My question to you is this: what is this "junk" data, and how do I prevent it from being written in the first place? This junk alone is wasting 10-20% of my disk space! For the record, I pull photos off of my camera by popping the SD card into my PC and pulling them off of it. I don't connect the camera to the PC. Refer to my attached image. There, I use "WinMerge" to compare the cleaned and original files.

Can any body tell me is there any way to decide what size and quality of JPEG are recorded when using RAW+ Setting? Ideally I would like to be able to record full size raw and small JPEG at the sme time.

Hello everyone, So back in August I bought a brand new, in the box Sony Alpha A6000 from a Korean retailer on Ebay. It took a while to come in but once it did, I was really happy and started snapping away. But when I brought the JPEGs onto my computer...I noticed that they looked awful. I saw really high noise at 0% crop in even bright conditions with low ISO settings (~250). I looked at the metadata and found nothing awry. I found this youtube video: https://youtu.be/6FVuO8FezjA and made the following changes: High ISO NR -> off Long exposure NR -> off And then I switched off one more setting that I can't remember... But nothing did the trick. I'm still seeing high noise levels in my low ISO shots, something that my Nikon D5100 never had. I contacted Sony support but they were stumped. I tried to return my camera but the ebay merchant drug their heels until the return window passed and then denied my return. Please help.