Sony ARW RAW Image File 1.x

Readable

image

ARW is a raw image format produced by some makes of Sony cameras. The format is based upon TIFF.

Identify it

Extensions	`.arw`
MIME types	`image/x-sony-arw`
Signatures	`49492a00` at byte 0 (Sony ARW 1.x)
PRONOM	`fmt/191fmt/1127`
Wikidata	`Q28205439`

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Open it

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Convert it

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

Versions and variants (1)

Sony ARW RAW Image File 2.xUnknown

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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