[HUG ] Re: IMG: Triptych

Hi Roger,

The standard terms in the digital imaging industry are lossy or lossless.
That has specifically to do with compression, not so much with file format.
It's the compression that's lossy or lossless, not really the file format
(though raw files are supposed to be lossless one would assume).

Regards,

Austin

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> Subject: [HUG ] Re: IMG: Triptych
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>
> If we were to refer to the native formats by their file
> extensions, would it make the concept any easier to grasp? Would
> referring to .nef, .cr2, .dng etc. make it so or would that
> further jumble the concept of RAW as a format?
>
> I also wonder if avoiding the adverbial forms of loss would read
> any easier in english? Loss-lessly. to me at least, is awkward.
> Tiff files 'with loss' or 'without loss' says it, not? Probably
> too well established to change, I suspect, but I'm always tilting
> at windmills. :-)


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