No, lossless TIFF is not enough. A non-RAW visible TIFF already has
tone compression applied, which by nature causes loss. When people talk
of "lossless" TIFF files, they really mean "lossless" file compression.
A RAW file has much more than that.
Mr. Bill
Harman Bajwa wrote:
Finally, if the RAW file really was a TIFF type file
(ie interpolation is already applied minus the camera
settings), Canon would not have to go thru the trouble
of supplying an FVU utility - they would just output
either a JPEG (lossy) or TIFF (lossless) - no RAW
neccessary. The DNG initiative would really be
unneccessary - the TIFF has been around for a while
and enjoys tremendous support with professionals and
is a very well known and flexible format to work with.
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