On Jan 5, 2009, at 5:12 PM, Dan wrote:
> > At 1:55 PM -0800 1/5/2009, MIKO .. wrote: >> The photo industry believes that the highest quality version of an >> image is its RAW >> version, when available. > > Each company has its own variant of RAW. There will be no standard > any time soon. > > TIFF is better. From a pro perspective image quality of a TIFF is not good enough, RAW is much better. But yes, lack of standardization is a HUGE PITA! Particularly on very early digital images, stuff we've got from the mid 90's requires us to keep an old G3 in mothballs just incase. Shots with the older systems we're phasing out now are iffy. But the calls I get when pulling images from our archives usually require resizing, color adjustments made 10-15 years ago to the file are usually totally wrong (monitors, calibrators, etc have come a LONG way) etc that give MUCH better results from the RAW file rather than a TIFF. At this point with newer systems they're generally all supported by Photoshop CameraRAW and can be converted to DNG. i feel that's reasonably safe since I'm seeling the useful life right around 10 years for an image, I don't see many calls for images older than that, even than with images more than 2-3 years old i only get a request maybe once a year ... -sam --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
