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wanting to upload RAW photos but am being met with pink error screen when clicking next when it shows a preview on the app. i’ve never had an issue in the past shooting raw and uploading to IG, does anyone know or is having issues uploading?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Maybe you should learn what a raw photo is first... And perhaps stop shooting in raw until you do...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

JPEG is a standard format used by many cameras and cell phones, and a JPEG image should be rendered the same by any software that supports JPEG.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JPEG

RAW formats are specific to each camera manufacturer and can even vary from one camera model to another. Each of these raw formats needs a different algorithm to decode the image.

The following wiki page shows that there are over 30 raw image formats. Some companies such as Canon, Sony, Hasselblad, Leica and Panasonic use (or have used) more than one raw format.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raw_image_format

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

No social media platforms support raw by default to knowledge. Convert to JPEG then upload.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Why would you expect Instagram to support RAW uploads?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Reminds me. I’ve got all these negatives from old vacation photos. But nobody seems interested when I share my past travels.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Raws don't look a certain way - they're just sensor data. Any time you're looking at a picture, you're looking at raw data that has gone through extensive processing e.g. demosaicing, mapping from 12-14 bit down to 8 bit etc

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

lol do you have any idea why you’re shooting raw?