Camera Image File Format
| Filename extension |
.crw |
|---|---|
| Internet media type | image/x-canon-crw |
| Developed by | Canon |
| Type of format | raw image format |
In digital photography, the Camera Image File Format (CIFF) file format is a RAW image format designed by Canon. Its specification was released on February 12, 1997[1].
The last revision of the standard was revision 4, on December 24, 1997. The format is no longer used by Canon, having been superseded by the CR2 file format.
Digital cameras
The CRW format was supported by some earlier Canon digital cameras[2]:
- Canon EOS D30
- Canon EOS D60
- Canon EOS 10D
- Canon EOS 300D
- Canon Powershot Pro1
- Canon Powershots G1-G6
- Canon Powershots S30-S70
Software that supports CRW
Besides Canon's ZoomBrowser and Digital Photo Professional, several other software programs provide read support, and sometimes write support, for CRW files including:
- Adobe Photoshop
- Aperture
- AZImage based on libraw lite
- ExifTool
- Adobe Lightroom
- Picasa
- dcraw
- jrawio
- libraw
See also
- RAW image format
- Comparison of image viewers
- dcraw
- other digital negative formats