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- Now, Rich, we're both avid photographers. We travel all over the place with our cameras, and usually that means bringing a big camera. Now big cameras, of course, have gotten smaller over the years. - Yeah. - But one really welcomed addition to the HERO5 Black edition is the ability now to shoot RAW photos. - [Rich] Yeah, RAW photos mean essentially, that you get to see everything the sensor sees. Now normally, with something like a GoPro, you're getting a highly compressed JPEG, which didn't hold up as well to post-processing. Now we do have a class available here, in the online library, where we talk about ways of processing GoPro footage and how to get more out of the stills, using tools like Photoshop and Lightroom, but we were really pushing the limits of what was possible. Now the GPR format, or GoPro RAW is quite useful. Rob, It's basically a modified DNG file. So it's using that Adobe spec, sort of a universal one. - [Rob] Yep. And then they packed it a bit, to work for…

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