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I've recently seen references to Rawsie (formerly called Dotphoton RAW) which bills itself as providing lossless compression to RAW files, but I know nothing about it. My photographs currently consume about 450GB, about 50% of my internal hard drive's capacity, and I only have about 10% of the drive capacity available, so I have been looking for a way to avoid adding another external hard drive to my system. Rawsie seems to be a useful app to help me in this regard but I'm looking for some comments from actual users, not just sponsored reviewers. I have some specific questions:
- How well does Rawsie work with Lightroom? Are there any issues with compressing previously edited RAW files?
- Rawsie apparently saves the compressed files as DNG instead of proprietary RAW files. Are they using a lossy DNG format even though thy claim it's lossless?
- Would I be better to save my imported files as DNG instead of paying for Rawsie, especially as my camera RAW format may not be supported yet.