S70 : .jpg and .tiff pictures are the same !!

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After many comparaisons, I think there is no difference in quality beetween the 2048 jpeg and 2048 tiff pictures taken by the sony dsc s70. And even in dark shots or action shots, I see, with a 600 % zoom the same compression !
Has anyone an explication ?
thank you,

ugo
 
Hmm. The only logical answer tha I can think of is that the camera always compress no matter what. For TIFF, the firmare will uncomress save it in the format. I hope this is not the case ;-)
After many comparaisons, I think there is no difference in quality
beetween the 2048 jpeg and 2048 tiff pictures taken by the sony dsc s70.
And even in dark shots or action shots, I see, with a 600 % zoom the same
compression !
Has anyone an explication ?
thank you,

ugo
 
It seems he is correct. I verified it with a shot of an old motherboard and indeed there were no differences visible
(600% magnification) between TIF and JPG.

Then i made the crosscheck with the CP990 and i see the differences between "Hi" and "NORMAL".

So my conclusion would be, that the firmware only convert it from
JPG to TIF as you mentioned before.

Best regards,

Andreas
 
It seems he is correct. I verified it with a shot of an old motherboard
and indeed there were no differences visible
(600% magnification) between TIF and JPG.

Then i made the crosscheck with the CP990 and i see the differences
between "Hi" and "NORMAL".

So my conclusion would be, that the firmware only convert it from
JPG to TIF as you mentioned before.

Best regards,
Com'on guys! Do you really think your eye can differentiate color (255, 255, 255) from color (254, 254, 254)?

Using JPEG compresssion ratio of 6 for S70, it's really hard for naked eyes to tell the difference. However, I did a simple and easy test. Save both Jpg and Tif files to bitmap files and compare the binary data of the pixels. The result is the two bitmap files are very different although your eye can not tell the diference easily.

Save CCD raw image into TIFF is very stright foreward and much easier than convert JPG to TIFF.

Foxbat
 
If you recall Phil's review of the S70 he states:

"As you can see from the top two samples that JPEG mode is almost indistinguishable from TIFF"

He also suggests that Sony should have included a more aggressive compression setting.

My personal experience after critical examination of S70 images is that there are no visible artifacts at normal magnification for 2048X1536, 1600X1200 and 1280X960 resolution settings. The 640X480 images do exhibit artifacts of the compression process.
I find this ideal for my purposes.

What’s you opinion ?

Regards,

Heath
It seems he is correct. I verified it with a shot of an old motherboard
and indeed there were no differences visible
(600% magnification) between TIF and JPG.

Then i made the crosscheck with the CP990 and i see the differences
between "Hi" and "NORMAL".

So my conclusion would be, that the firmware only convert it from
JPG to TIF as you mentioned before.

Best regards,
Com'on guys! Do you really think your eye can differentiate color (255,
255, 255) from color (254, 254, 254)?

Using JPEG compresssion ratio of 6 for S70, it's really hard for naked
eyes to tell the difference. However, I did a simple and easy test. Save
both Jpg and Tif files to bitmap files and compare the binary data of the
pixels. The result is the two bitmap files are very different although
your eye can not tell the diference easily.

Save CCD raw image into TIFF is very stright foreward and much easier
than convert JPG to TIFF.

Foxbat
 
Com'on guys! Do you really think your eye can differentiate color (255,
255, 255) from color (254, 254, 254)?
Of course not.
Using JPEG compresssion ratio of 6 for S70, it's really hard for > naked
eyes to tell the difference. However, I did a simple and easy > test. Save
both Jpg and Tif files to bitmap files and compare the binary > data of the
pixels. The result is the two bitmap files are very different > although
your eye can not tell the diference easily.

Save CCD raw image into TIFF is very stright foreward and much > easier
than convert JPG to TIFF.
You might be true. But if there are no visible differences between
those two modes, it doesn't make great sense to me?

Best regards,

Andreas
 
You might be true. But if there are no visible differences between
those two modes, it doesn't make great sense to me?
This topic has been discussed many times here. If S70 or F505v does not offer TIFF support, many people may cry out loud and refuse to buy the camera.

Foxbat
 
You might be true. But if there are no visible differences between
those two modes, it doesn't make great sense to me?
This topic has been discussed many times here. If S70 or F505v does not
offer TIFF support, many people may cry out loud and refuse to buy the
camera.

Foxbat
Well,

So a kind of fake mode. Well, for me no problem the JPG of the F505V is
just okay for me.
Regarding the visibility, with a magnification of 1200% (smile) you really see
differences between "Normal" and "TIF" with CP990.

Best regards,

Andreas
 
So a kind of fake mode. Well, for me no problem the JPG of the F505V is
just okay for me.
Regarding the visibility, with a magnification of 1200% (smile) you
really see
differences between "Normal" and "TIF" with CP990.
"Normal" mode on CP990 uses more compression than S70/505v. It's "Fine" mode should equal to what S70/505v offers.

Foxbat
 
If you recall Phil's review of the S70 he states:

"As you can see from the top two samples that JPEG mode is almost
indistinguishable from TIFF"

He also suggests that Sony should have included a more aggressive
compression setting.

My personal experience after critical examination of S70 images is that
there are no visible artifacts at normal magnification for 2048X1536,
1600X1200 and 1280X960 resolution settings. The 640X480 images do
exhibit artifacts of the compression process.
I find this ideal for my purposes.

What’s you opinion ?
I think it's great. I hate to see any jpeg artifacts.

Foxbat
 
So a kind of fake mode. Well, for me no problem the JPG of the F505V is
just okay for me.
Regarding the visibility, with a magnification of 1200% (smile) you
really see
differences between "Normal" and "TIF" with CP990.
"Normal" mode on CP990 uses more compression than S70/505v. It's "Fine"
mode should equal to what S70/505v offers.

Foxbat
Well i think i will verify this

Best regards,

Andreas
 
After many comparaisons, I think there is no difference in quality
beetween the 2048 jpeg and 2048 tiff pictures taken by the sony dsc s70.
And even in dark shots or action shots, I see, with a 600 % zoom the same
compression !
Has anyone an explication ?
thank you,

ugo
Hi,

Just verified again. There are differences. I tried 1600% magnification of a
shot with a very heterogen structure.

Best regards,

Andreas
 
Foxbat -

You are correct (as usual). Back when the F505 was first selling, one of the major things that owners of other premium consumer cameras were complaining about was that "it doesn't offer an uncompressed mode".

Even Phil's excellent review said on the Conclusions page:
Overly aggressive JPEG compression modes
No uncompressed image format

So Sony addressed each of those things in response to what people wanted.

There is a difference between the JPG and the TIFF modes, especially if you are one of those folks that does a lot of tweaking of the image in Photoshop or another better image editor. The info is not simply converted from JPG to TIFF; it comes from the raw CCD data. But it is a slow process. I believe that a TIFF and a JPG version are created.
You might be true. But if there are no visible differences between
those two modes, it doesn't make great sense to me?
This topic has been discussed many times here. If S70 or F505v does not
offer TIFF support, many people may cry out loud and refuse to buy the
camera.

Foxbat
 
My opinion is that Sony gave users exactly what they asked for as an improvement to the F505.

I can't believe that folks would want their images to suffer by taking a step back to the old compression routines even if it means purchasing extra memory to fit the larger filesizes.
If you recall Phil's review of the S70 he states:

"As you can see from the top two samples that JPEG mode is almost
indistinguishable from TIFF"

He also suggests that Sony should have included a more aggressive
compression setting.

My personal experience after critical examination of S70 images is that
there are no visible artifacts at normal magnification for 2048X1536,
1600X1200 and 1280X960 resolution settings. The 640X480 images do
exhibit artifacts of the compression process.
I find this ideal for my purposes.

What’s you opinion ?
 

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