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Increased bit depth storage is increased discrimination - a finer gradient - but may cover the same dynamic range in say a 12 versus 14 bit system. Increased bit depth storage is not necessarily increased dynamic range storage although the two tend to go hand in hand. The X-T2 and X-E2 mentioned in this thread store data at 14 bits per pixel. That bit depth varies one camera to the next but typically ranges between 10 to 14 bits. When the analog signal from a sensor is converted to digital values in the cameras ADC (analog digital converter), digital storage space is assigned per pixel at a specific bit depth. Modern sensors have a dynamic range of about 10 to 12 stops not bits. In order to keep the file size down, you can specify a file format that allows for intermediate bit-depths (probably what the RAF file does), chop of a few bits, compress the file or a combination of these things (no idea what they do for the 10-bit DNG). I think, I read a while ago that the DNG file format is very close to the TIF format, so in addition to the full dynamic range information from your sensor you get a whole bunch of 0's as well, which then blows up your file size. So 10 or 12 bits from the sensor need to be put into a 16 bit file, but that leads to 4 - 6 bits that need to be padded with 0's (empty information).

Now, AFAIK the TIF specification only allows for 8 or 16 bits of information to be stored in a TIF file. Modern camera sensors have a dynamic range of about 10 - 12 bits (that roughly means they can distinguish between 2^10 to 2^12 or 1024 to 4096 intensity values). DNG file sizes, I guess, it depends how these different file formats handle 'empty' information. Regarding the 10-bit- vs 16-bit and the RAF vs.

Fuji raf iridient developer then lightroom