Thread: RAW or JPG?
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Old 03-11-2004, 03:52 AM  
darnit
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Originally posted by crescentx
I assume your talking from digicam. RAW is usually some derivative of TIFF or something, no loss, no compression, HUGE files. In my experience high quality digital cam pics can be delivered, un-resized, at 10-quality JPEG with excellent results (provided the pic is high quality to start with) at much smaller sizes, with more flexibility (less work you have to do post-process it, faster to deal with because it's smaller).

-doug
Actually TIFF is compressed but its a non lossy compression format. I do agree however that .jpg is better it does have loss but at the 10 quality he recommends its negligable...unless you are doing some really high end print work, in that case use uncompressed all the way...

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