Re: [OM] nearly, or not quite

[C.H.Ling]

BTW, what software you used for converting the 16 bit tiff to PNG? Photoshop 
didn't do very well, only compressed my 16bit color file from 66MB to around 
52MB and it is much slower than saving tiff.

C.H.Ling

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "C.H.Ling"

>I belive RAW is the best lossless format for digital camera. I only use RAW
> mainly because of the excellent W/B and exposure control in RAW converter.
>
> C.H.Ling
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Dawid Loubser"
>
>> PNG really is a wonderful format, it's unbelievable that cameras
>> didn't just use it as the de-facto
>> lossless format. A 80MB 16bit TIFF is easily quartered in size by
>> storing it as a 16-bit PNG, with
>> zero information loss (with some of my typical images, YMMV).
> 

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