I am not using your particular camera, but I think generally the TIF
file also takes longer to write to the card slowing down your shooting.
The other thing is that the TIF made in the camera is generally an 8
bit file instead of a 12 bit file like the raw file. That makes it
harder to get good results from the adjustments that you are making
in post processing. I think it is better to hang onto the extra bits
until the last moment rather than throw them away early in the
process. That way they are there if you need to add detail at either
end of the gray scale. So my advise is to continue to do what you are
doing: raw -> download and adjust -> save in your final format.
Another thing you could do to save space if you think you have the
image in close to its final form is to save it as a jpeg with highest
quality. I doubt anyone could see any difference from the giant TIF
file.
Winsor
Long Beach, California, USA
On Oct 26, 2006, at 6:47 AM, John Hudson wrote:
> I would like to know whether the ORF, RAW processing and saving as TIF
> routine will produce a TIF file that is, or can be, measureably
> better than
> the TIF file had the camera been set to record in TIF at the outaset.
==============================================
List usage info: http://www.zuikoholic.com
List nannies: olympusadmin@xxxxxxxxxx
==============================================
|