Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/02/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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 - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html