Roll on 26 years, and we still have predominantly two image file formats on our cameras, jpeg and raw. So today we are going to try and make sense of the current image file formats, hopefully allowing you an informed view on which one to use in your photography. Technically raw is actually many different file formats, each camera manufacturer has a raw format, and individual camera models can have variations on that raw format. Apple’s ProRaw is a relatively recent file format, which on the face of it is a vanilla raw file. Beyond cameras there are also new image file formats designed for displaying images online but give a much better quality than jpeg or png.