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Why do RAW images take so much longer to import than JPEGs?

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Why do RAW images take so much longer to import than JPEGs?

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RAW images take longer to import because iPhoto makes a JPEG copy at the time of import. The JPEG conversion allows other parts of Mac OS X, which don’t understand the RAW format, to use your images even before you edit them.

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