Novice Question????????

[leod]

I was experminting a bit with my Olympus C 700 UZ last week and took some pics in TIFF.

What would I use this setting for, the only thing that comes to mind is for printing to paper??.

It's obivious that I don't really understand a lot about photography, and would appreciate any education here, or a reference to some "novice" reading on this.

thanks

leo

 

[Ironwood]

Leo... If you go to this site. http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/T/TIFF.html You will know as much about TIFF as I do.

 

[leod]

Thanks for the link Ironwood, I read it and linked off it and gathered some more info.

So far it looks like "storage without loss" may be the advantage??

Does anyone use this setting for their pics??

Are you anywhere near Marshall??

leo

 

[Ironwood]

Leo... I have only used JPEG for my photos. However about all I ever do with them is post them on the web and send them to my fiends.


Lufkin, where I live, is about 90 miles directly south of Marshall.

 

[WildBird]

Tif is an uncompressed file. JPGs have several levels of compression which is why you can fit so many more on the camera's media card. The compression reduces the quality. JPG is the standard for the web and all you need to print with an inkjet printer. Tif is the standard for the commercial printing industry. If you are using your pics straight from the camera without editing them and making your own prints or having Walmart or somebody do them then just stick to JPG in HQ or SHQ setting. If you want a very large print (from a pro lab) then a Tif is better. I have a C-730 and use SHQ because I use editing SW (Photoshop Elements) and save them first in the program as a Tif or a PS file. This keeps the quality from being reduced during the editing as would happen making changes to a JPG. After all the changes are made I save again as a JPG for my printer, to put on the web or share by email. WB

 

[leod]

WildBird

Thanks for the info, it helps me "get the picture"

I normally download from the camera to my laptop, store, then edit. If I resave to "tif " before editing then maybe it will help me retain quality.

leo

 

[AnnieAK]

leod, The thing to remember about jpeg is that when you are editing, everytime you make a change and then save it, it compresses and you lose data. Even at the highest quality setting, it still compresses some. If you just open it and look at it, nothing changes, but if you save it, bam, a litttle more data down the drain.
Depending on what I'm doing with the file, I usually save my files as TIFFs as I edit them and do all the changes in TIFF, including changing the image size if I'm going to send it over the web. Then I keep the final TIFF file in case something goes wrong, and then I change it to a jpeg for sending. TIFFs take up a LOT of room, I've found.

 

[AnnieAK]

Oh, I forgot to say, I occasionally take a picture in TIFF if it's something I really want to catch some detail in, and I'm willing to give up a bunch of space on my media card. On my 32 MB card, I think I can get 5 TIFF pictures.

 

[leod]

AnnieAK

Thanks, as I said, it is starting to make sense to me and and I sure appreciate everyones input.

I have plenty of room for saving the pics I want in tif, and will put them on cd's after awhile.

My biggest problem will be in getting rid of the pics I don't really want, I'm kinda a pack rat

Thanks all

leo