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.
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- Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth

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