Canon Raw 3.0

Readable

image

The .CR3 file format (Canon RAW version 3) is a digital photography RAW format created by Canon.

Identify it

Extensions	`.cr3`
MIME types	`image/x-canon-cr3`
Signatures	`000000186674797063727820000000016372782069736f6d` at byte 0
PRONOM	`fmt/1595`
Wikidata	`Q99761366`

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Open it

GIMPOpen sourcereads · GNU General Public License, version 3.0
ImageMagickOpen sourcereads · ImageMagick License
PhotoRecOpen sourcereads · GNU General Public License
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Zoner Photo Studioreads and writes
Adobe Camera Rawreads
Microsoft Photosreads · Microsoft end-user license agreement
Q472277reads · freeware

Convert it

To	With	Fidelity	Command and losses
Portable Network Graphics	ImageMagick	Lossless	`convert in.cr3 out.png` Pixels kept; some metadata, colour profiles or layers may be dropped.
Tagged Image File Format	ImageMagick	Lossless	`convert in.cr3 out.tif` Pixels kept; some metadata, colour profiles or layers may be dropped.
GIF 89a	ImageMagick	Lossy	`convert in.cr3 out.gif` Reduced to 256 colours.
JPEG File Interchange Format 1.02	ImageMagick	Lossy	`convert in.cr3 out.jpg` Lossy compression.
WebP	ImageMagick	Lossy	`convert in.cr3 out.webp` Lossy compression.

Sources

From Converters (FFmpeg, ImageMagick, Pandoc, LibreOffice), Just Solve the File Format Problem (File Formats Wiki), PRONOM, Wikidata. Updated 2026-10-24.

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