No print medium is capable of completely displaying even the limited dynamic
range of a high quality JPEG. I think the same may be true of an RGB display
as well but I'm on less solid ground there as there may be very high quality
displays. But if your output is a printed image there's no reason you need
more than JPEG for the final image.
Chuck Norcutt
> -------Original Message-------
> From: Andrew Wiese <andrew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [OM] Re: RAW Bit Depth
> Sent: Apr 08 '07 12:04
>
>
>
> In addition to what Moose wrote (part II of which is fundamentally important
> stuff for really understanding digital, in my view), two things come to my
> mind, one, TIFF generally takes up more space than RAW, even using the
> lossless compression I'm familiar with; and two, even maximum quality JPEG
> loses something, and even if it makes practically no difference, it makes me
> uncomfortable to shoot something and not be sure I can pull everything out
> of the capture that's there.
>
> I'm rarely really happy with the jpegs out of my 5D, and never consistently
> so, even though I've fiddled with the Style settings ad nauseum. I use
> Small/Normal jpegs as previews in my workflow, and am much happier with RAW
> for the real thing. I'm still pretty new to digital capture, though, so I'm
> happy to hear other ideas.
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