>
>As a long-time user of the TIFF format for somewhat unrelated 
>purposes, I feel most inclined to comment on this note:
>
>    Tiffs don't have any of the post-processing advantages of RAW
>
>Which is obviously untrue, since TIFF (unlike JPEG) won't 
>usually compress data by throwing actual image data away, and 
>also has the capability of storing 12 bits-per-channel (well, 
>actually, it will have to be be 0-padded 16-bit, but...)
>

And there's one more thing people tend to forget - each time one opens,
possibly modifies and saves a JPEG back to the file more of the image data
gets thrown away. Even with high quality JPEGs these things do accumulate
...

Cheers,

Leon

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