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Originally Posted by Roy C
TIFF files .... retain the full quality of the image. They can be compressed or uncompressed, but the compression scheme is lossless, meaning that although the file gets a little smaller, no information is lost.
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I appreciate that a tiff is lossless on successive saves, but does it retain everything there was in the RAW? Working on the RAW(nef) the way I do, I can and sometimes do go back to the exposure compensation and colour temp if I have not got what I want through non RAW editing
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Originally Posted by Roy C
edit Where a lot of people go wrong IMO is that they convert the raw to a jpeg (8bit) and then do more editing with this lossy format.
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Agreed, no good. A problem with my even older files from E4500 and FZ7, but on the old favourites that I still hope to improve, I do the 1st save from original in tif; on the FZ7 which had the option to shoot in tif or jpg (but not RAW), I couldn't see any difference, though the possibility of sunsequent lossless operation is there