Tethered shooting image storage

[Marc]

Just curious really. When I use tethered shooting, it uses software called Image Data Lightbox (Came with the camera) to view the images on screen. I then drag the images into Elements to convert them from RAW (via ACR) and edit them.

When I close IDL it prompts me to save and does so as a lightbox (LBW) file, but the file only appears to be a few kilobytes in size despite containing around 40 RAW files which are usually around 18 megabytes each! Are they really compressed in storage by that much or is it magic?

 

[purpleclouds]

I'd have thought the RAW files were being stored elsewhere, and the LBW is merely a 'library' file?

Have a search through your hard drive for all the RAW files...whatever file format they are (.raw .cr2 etc)

 

[Marc]

I'd have thought the RAW files were being stored elsewhere, and the LBW is merely a 'library' file?

Have a search through your hard drvie row all the RAW files...whatever file format they are (.raw .cr2 etc)

Now that sounds logical.

*goes off on a file hunt*

 

[purpleclouds]

If you're not back in 30 minutes, I'll send out the rescue crew!

edit - There was some atrocious spelling in my original post