On 13 Jun 2005 at 21:37, Toralf Lund wrote: > 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...)
The problem is in the case of the Pentax DSLR at least (and I suspect most others) the TIFF images are only available as 8 bits and the compression is so low on the best JPG images that the amount of data "lost" is masked by interpolation incongruence. Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.ozemail.com.au/~distudio/publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998
