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How does lossless compression in Fuji RAF files work? (2020)

by Fabian Tamp capnfabs.net published 2020-04-0916 min read

I spent 3 weeks earlier this year digging in to and reimplementing the lossless compression algorithm in Fuji’s RAF Camera RAW files. This post discusses the fundamentals of how it works.

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