Timeline for Why isn't saving photos as TIFF files a popular choice by DSLR manufacturers?
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| Jun 24, 2014 at 19:26 | comment | added | MikeW | Your last assertion is not correct. Every time you make a change and save a TIFF file, you lose information. Not through compression, if you are saving as lossless TIFF, but through changes to exposure, color, contrast etc. which irreversibly change pixels. You can't undo those changes like you can in RAW. | |
| Jun 24, 2014 at 19:23 | history | edited | MikeW | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jun 24, 2014 at 19:02 | comment | added | James Snell | It can be 'group 3 fax' too IIRC which makes jpeg look highly desirable in image quality terms... | |
| Jun 24, 2014 at 18:45 | comment | added | Dan Wolfgang | A .tiff can be losslessly compressed, but it can also use lossy JPEG compression. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tagged_Image_File_Format#Flexible_options | |
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| Jun 24, 2014 at 17:46 | history | answered | Andy Umbo | CC BY-SA 3.0 |