[Klaus]

Ah, Ok. Didn't know that it is lossless. Makes me wonder why they are offering uncompressed mode at all then.

Markus has ordered the 16-80mm - whatever this may mean.

Well, compressed files would take more time to process, since you need to uncompress them before working on them. Also, with the price and available space of modern HD and SD cards, you simply don't need to save as much space as you needed to.

Finally, many simply don't trust compression, even companies assure them they are lossless.

It may require some CPU time to compress the files but then it requires more IO time to store the uncompressed file. I haven't tested this but there's surely a break-even somewhere.