Paul on Mon, 14 Oct 2002 20:10:04 -0400


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Re: [PLUG] which image transfer format?




Rebecca Ore wrote:

One digital book recommended shooting in JPEG and converting to TIF after
downloading the JPEGS, then do all maniplations on the TIF file (JPEG's
compress every time they're saved, so you lose progressively more and more
data).


That makes sense since cameras capture the kind of images for which JPEG is optimal. Also, cameras have limited memory which makes using JPEG compression useful.


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