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What’s Incompatible with RAW? 45

 Smart teleconverter button  Focus Magnifier (Section 5.26)
 Preview Button  Shot. Result Preview (Section 10.18)

2.4 WHAT’S INCOMPATIBLE WITH RAW?

I give a good introduction to the benefits of shooting RAW in Chapter 14,
but the A77 II offers many advanced bells-and-whistles which are
incompatible with RAW mode. And some of them aren’t invokable while
in RAW, while others will silently switch to .jpg shooting while you invoke
them and then switch back when you’re finished. Which features are
incompatible with RAW, and how does the camera behave for each? A
comprehensive table appears below:

Function The camera switches The camera prevents you
to JPG automatically from invoking it
Multi-Frame Noise 
Reduction (MFNR)
High-Dynamic Range 
Handheld Twilight 
Soft Skin effect 
Auto object framing 
Sweep Panorama mode 
Image Size  (RAW only)
Picture effects (all of 
them)
Zoom (on the Camera 
menu)
High ISO noise  (RAW only)
reduction
Zoom Settings (on the 
Gear menu)

Items labeled “RAW Only” mean the feature is still selectable if you have
RAW+JPG enabled, but the effect applies only to the .jpg. Scene modes
not mentioned above will let you shoot RAW without interference,