RAW photos named .jpg?

[Brookz]

Hi

I just bought an A6400 and noticed that, when i shoot RAW the photos are still named .jpg.

Am i missing something or is this normal?

[Thad E Ginathom]

It sounds as if you are missing... the raw photos!

1. Is your camera set to take just raw, or raw+jpeg?

2. Where and how are you looking?

[Brookz]

Wow i didn't realize that it was the RAW photos i was missing, thanks ?

Jokes aside, i just tried something. Up until now i've used the Imagine Edge Mobile app (formerly Sony Memories) to transfer onto my phone and from there into google drive. It seems like using that app it reformats the RAW files to JPEG for some reason.

i just tested by shooting one RAW, one JPEG and one RAW+JPEG and transfering with a card reader straight to my laptop and there i have two RAW (or AWR) and two JPEG. So it seems you just can't transfer RAW with the mobile app.

Would make sense, since you probably can't view RAW files on a phone.

 

Well problem solved i guess :-)

[Thad E Ginathom]

Glad you got sorted. It might indeed make sense to send raw photos to a phone. I suspect there are photo viewers capable of viewing, even editing them. But, even more than that, the phone is the gateway to the rest of the world, and one might want to upload/send the raw file.

[JetFLA]

Nikon does the same thing.  I think the reasoning is the phone can't read the RAW file in it's photo app.  Most people who connect ther phone to the camera are doing so to be able to share the photo immediately, or have a copy in their picts.  I can see where you might want to be able to email the RAW file or something like that, but in reality, there's not really anything else you can do with the file on your phone, and if you wanted to just store them on the phone for later, it probably wouldn't take long to fill the phone up.