Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/02/02

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Subject: Re: [Leica] 32 bit digital cameras
From: Eric Welch <eric@jphotog.com>
Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2004 20:56:58 -0800
References: <BC43A3D2.610%s.dimitrov@charter.net> <p05100316bc44336b65e6@[10.0.1.5]> <401E9F12.9020308@openhealth.org> <p05100319bc448063871e@[10.0.1.5]> <1122CB77-55ED-11D8-BBF7-000A95BA5A2C@openhealth.org> <p0510031cbc44b9f5de40@[10.0.1.5]>

Actually, common formats are going the way of the Dodo. InDesign (the 
future of layout, Quark is doomed in the long run, unless they follow 
suit) programs now support native file formats such as Illustrator and 
Acrobat and Photoshop's newsest format. So why convert files to any 
other format and change them when native is best?

Eric Welch
Carlsbad, CA
http://www.jphotog.com

"A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is still 
putting on its shoes."
- -- Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) 
On Feb 2, 2004, at 6:52 PM, Henning Wulff wrote:

> RAW formats generally have greater compression, and allow a greater 
> range of manipulation without degratdation than TIFF. TIFF shooting 
> and compression takes more time, as RAW is closer to what the sensor 
> produces in the first place, and post picture taking processing takes 
> place in your computer, not the camera. Therefore significantly 
> faster, which is the point of RAW rather than TIFF

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