[HUG ] Re: IMG: Triptych

Austin,
I'm not sure how to answer your questions technically, but I just finished a
shoot that was at least 2 stops overexposed.  The raw files contained more
information than was in the image, and I was able to pull that info out of
the file.  I could not begin to pull that same data out of the .jpg files
produced concurrently.

.tif files are lossless, but the camera's internal settings (usually
changeable by the user) choose the amount of sharpening, the contrast, etc.
to produce the .tif (or .jpg) image you take out of the camera.  One setting
is saved; the additional data (what the lens actually "saw", is discarded.
That's why raw files are so much larger than .tif files.

Sorry for the non-techspeak, but it's the best I could do.

Karl Wolz


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