Chris,
Yes indeed, SHQ is just unsquashed .jpg according to my docs. I don't
really know the effect of compression other than producing a smaller file
by throwing stuff away, which seems like a bad thing and waste of all the
capture effort. A number of years ago I knew of a very fine photographer
(who was unfortunately otherwise a pretty nasty person), who would archive
all his keeper images as .jpgs at quality level 12. That results in a file
about half the size of a .TIFF or .PSD but still very large for a .jpg. A
large .jpg seems a bit like dehydrated water with some of the water stirred
back in. I sometimes save SHQ captures after postprocessing as .PSDs just
because I keep thinking saving to .jpg takes the blood out of them.
Are you still working with jp2000? If so, how's it working out?
Joel W.
At 06:37 AM 10/30/2004 +0100, you wrote:
>Thanks Joel. I expect that you will find that the only difference
>between the "levels of quality" in the jpeg files is the number of
>pixels that the image contains. I should imagine that SHQ is a larger
>file than HQ; the quality, per se, is no different.
>
>Chris
>
>On 29 Oct 2004, at 12:52, Joel Wilcox wrote:
>
> > Thank you for looking, Chris. Just a bit of cropping (you'll perhaps
> > notice it no longer looks "4/3").
> >
> > SHQ for me. RAW is more difficult with the C-8080 as I don't have a
> > decent
> > import utility for PS 5.5. But I honestly can't discern a difference
> > in
> > quality between RAW and even HQ with this camera, let alone SHQ, so
> > that's
> > that.
> >
> > Joel W.
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