after converting the raw images in TIFF do you store them
permanently as TIFF or you first convert them into JPEG?
i recently shot about 75 images in raw then converted them into 16
bit TIFF (about 1.65 GB!), and i was wondering if i should burn
these images into CD as TIFF or converted as JPEGS...
thanks in advance for replying!!!
Mark,
Have you already decided what you are going to use these images
for? That is the key to your answer. Are you going to work on the
images any more? If so store as TIFs.
Not that it will have any application to you, but here is what I
do. I shoot only in RAW (except the odd time I want to use the
digital zoom when I use Large superfine jpegs). When I down load, I
select the "keepers" and archive them as RAW (I store on hard drive
until I get a CD worth, then burn a CD. Then I convert the keepers
to TIFs - 8 bit, unless the image is under or over exposed in which
case I use 16 bit. I store the TIFs on CDRWs until I am through
with them. Some get posted, emailed, or printed as snapshots. Some
get worked on in Picture Window and printed for exhibition. The
TIFs I really like I also archive on CDs when I am finished with
them. The rest get blown away because I have the RAW files which I
treat as digital negatives - I keep them forever.
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Happy Snapping
Don McVee
