IQ of Panasonic 14-45 f3.5-5.6 vs. Panasonic 12-35 f2.8

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FrankParis
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Re: IQ of Panasonic 14-45 f3.5-5.6 vs. Panasonic 12-35 f2.8
In reply to boxerman, 5 months ago

boxerman wrote:

I understand what you say (below), but this is precisely the reason for my question. Why does everyone say CA correction from RAW is easy, but if you shoot JPEG, you are out of luck? As you say, it's all pixels. (Although, I don't know enough about the internal codings for the various processing programs to be confident they REALLY have a common coding. I did not want to presume that, for example, RAW pixel coding looks generic inside the processing program. In my part of the world, internal codings vary a LOT for both images and other things, like text and arrays. The codings are optimized for the particular purposes of the particular program.)

The encoding is the same only in RAM memory, where image processing programs do their work. When the images are saved to disk, they are encoded according to the standard specified for the format. JPEG uses a lossy compression algorithm. This means that every time you change something in it and save it back to JPEG, you lose detail, so doing all your work in JPEG is misunderstanding what is going on. TIFF is a lossless disk format (so is RAW). If you save it 100 times without changing anything, the image remains the same. Try that with a JPEG and the image will fall apart.

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