At 5:42 PM -0500 1/5/2009, Sam Macomber wrote: >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.
Never heard that before. In what way is TIFF lacking? >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, DNG still bothers me a bit. It's an Adobe format, a container for their particular variant of RAW, based on TIFF. I don't trust Adobe much. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
