Will GIF still be an editable camera RAW?+
Hasselblad 3FR needs camera- and file-aware development to produce a rendered GIF image. White balance, exposure, camera colour interpretation and, where applicable, demosaicing determine that rendering. The destination does not retain the original RAW development latitude. No development settings or camera support are implemented yet.
Why can GIF lose colours despite lossless compression?+
GIF uses at most 256 colours per GIF colour table and a transparent palette index rather than partial alpha. Richer colours and translucent edges need quantisation or compositing. Palette choice and dithering depend on the future engine; lossless GIF compression does not reverse palette reduction.
Are bit depth and colour values guaranteed to match?+
Source and target sample models can differ in precision, channel layout, colour space and transfer function. Lossless compression only preserves the samples actually encoded; a precision reduction or colour conversion can already change them. The future engine defines numeric mapping, orientation and colour conversion; canonical depth facts are listed below where available.
Will metadata and colour profiles be retained?+
Hasselblad 3FR: Capture metadata → GIF: Comments, Application extensions. Which fields are copied, rewritten or omitted will depend on the future engine; retention is not implemented yet.