> Those 8.9 MB are uncompressed. Tiffs will most assuredly
> be readable for a long time to come, but that is not
> so sure for any compression algorithm.
>
Ah yes: fully agree.
But I was thinking "in the field" where in-camera storage is still a
real constraint and just buying more and more digital media just to
carry it home is the only real option. With TIFFs the degree of
compression down does depend on the scene (it uses run-length encoding
right). From typical slide scans TIFF normally buys me 10-30% saving,
sometimes 50%.
The opimum workflow to me would be to keep the images in as small a
form as possible till I got them downloaded. At that point they would
be translated to TIFF, BMP or some other more universal format. But
then it may be different in situations where you have time to
review-as-you-go or where you*always* have access to a portable/modem.
Bob
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