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