Re: Best format question
- From: Peter in New Zealand <peterbalplug@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 10:11:42 +1200
ray wrote:
On Wed, 19 Sep 2007 08:03:55 +1200, Peter in New Zealand wrote:Thanks heaps to you all for taking the time and trouble to offer your thoughts. As an old film photographer I kind of "identify" with the idea of the original jpgs being kept untouched as the "negatives". The software I use very easily bulk converts to tif, leaving the originals untouched. In this forum of obviously knowledgable people I hesitate to mention it, but it is Ashampoo Photo Commander 5, and for anything it can't do for me, (which isn't often), I fall back onto an old version of Photo Studio. I have been a bit overwhelmed with all the issues of file format, digital zoom versus optical zoom (I know digital zoom is not always good). I appreciate the courtesy and friendly help offered here (a refreshing change after the odd group I have been in over the past ten years), and I will continue to lurk. I am sure I will pick up valuable tips and ideas from the posters. Thank you all again.
Hello. I am going to ask what is probably an incredibly basic question, so please be gentle with me. I have been keen on photography all my life, from my first Kodak Box Brownie in 1952, through to my grand old SLR. Then I discovered digital, with which I am still very much a beginner. I have a liffle Fuji FinePix A340 that only saves in JPG. For about three years I have happily shot away and built up a collection in this format. Recently I discovered that this format is prone to progressive quality loss over successive saves. One or two of my images show this, as they have been extensively worked on. I just love fiddling with them on the computer.
Trying to research this issue I came to the conclusion that TIF might be better for storage. Drive space is not an issue for me, so thre's plenty of room for them. The thing is, my camera only produces JPGs. I can't afford to replace it with one that has the TIF option. However I do have software that will batch convert image formats. So will it help if I get the JPG images off the camera and immediately convert them to TIF before doing anything else with them?
Sure that will help. So will always doing editing from a system copy of
the original.
BTW - one fairly inexpensive way to get a camera that shoots raw is the
Kodak online store - look for a refurb P series. Got my P850 last fall for
$250 including the printer dock.
Grateful thanks for any advice you can offer this old fella.
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Peter in New Zealand. (Pull the plug out to reply.)
Collector of old cameras, tropical fish fancier, good coffee nutter, and compulsive computer fiddler.
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