[Leica] Now RAW vs JPEG

[jonathan at openhealth.org (Jonathan Borden)]

Feli wrote:

> Tina is right.
>

Err, what prevents one from converting the proprietary RAW bits into  
TIFF pixels. They will need an appropriate ICC profile, perhaps, but  
it is fairly straightforward to stick pixels into a TIFF.

Jonathan
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> feli
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>> But in order to store the image as a tiff, you are converting it.   
>> You lose the ability to change anything in the conversion  
>> process.  Raw contains all of the information available.   
>> Converting to tiff you are making choices about white balance,  
>> exposure, contrast, sharpening, and many, many more.  Those can't  
>> be changed once you convert to tiff.  With raw you have the  
>> ability to change those every time you convert.  Raw images also  
>> take up much less space than tiffs.  Why wouldn't you save raws?
>>
>> Tina
>>
>> Tina Manley, ASMP
>> www.tinamanley.com
>>
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