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Aug 20, 2019 at 15:22 comment added mattdm @Manchineel Yes, that's the joke
Aug 20, 2019 at 14:09 comment added Manchineel @anon TLA is a TLA for Three Letter Acronym... How meta
Aug 24, 2012 at 2:25 comment added Mechanical snail JPEG can be cropped losslessly, using e.g. jpegtran.
Oct 17, 2011 at 16:52 comment added anon @JayLancePhotography - Since this sort of comment is bound to attract nit-picky geeks, TLA can also often mean "Three Letter Acronym."
May 30, 2011 at 9:04 comment added MattiaG the upsampling needed to get a full resolution shot from the crop will most likely lead to image quality loss much worse than that caused by average quality jpeg compression.
May 30, 2011 at 5:25 comment added Evan Krall The camera might also decide to compress a digitally zoomed image less, since it would naturally be a smaller file to begin with. This could also lead to a higher quality image than if you cropped later.
May 30, 2011 at 5:07 comment added jwenting not a lot of cameras that produce RAW output would have a digital zoom option, the customer base for both isn't at all the same :)
May 29, 2011 at 16:10 comment added Jay Lance Photography Since this sort of question is bound to attract folks who don't know all of our insider jargony geek TLAs yet let me just add... "in the context of @Jay's comments, TLA = Two Letter Acronym." :-)
May 29, 2011 at 16:08 comment added Jay Lance Photography Since this sort of question is bound to attract folks who don't know all of our insider jargony photography TLAs yet let me just add... "just so that someone doesn't make the mistake of thinking that not using digital zoom causes intelligence loss, in the context of @mattdm's answer, IQ = Image Quality."
May 28, 2011 at 23:23 history answered mattdm CC BY-SA 3.0