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Originally Posted by jprime84
This is just a more extreme version of what I said. MP3 music files are also lossy files. Casette is beyond lossless, its not even digital anymore.
I do agree with saving your RAW files to an archive, and using 1st generation JPGs from those files
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I was kind of just taking your version and expanding it a little for the OP. I have never saved, re-saved and re-saved mp3's, so I wasn't aware of the degradation they had. Being in my early 40's however
, I'm familiar with cassettes and the degradation of re-recording them. It was just an analogy, not to imply that JPG's turned analog.
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Originally Posted by inkista
TIFF (Tagged Image File Format), unlike RAW or Photoshop .psd files, is an open standard file format (in fact, most RAW formats are based on the TIFF standard with EXIF and other proprietary extras added). The problem with using TIFF as a standard for RAW is that metadata isn't a required part of the standard, it's optional (which is why Adobe keeps trying to get DNG off the ground as an open standard). But while that's the disadvantage of TIFF being an older file format, the advantage is that you can pretty much open and manipulate it inside almost any graphics software, and you're mostly future-proofed against losing access to your images via proprietary software or operating systems disappearing or becoming non-backwards compatible (think Word); or if you decide to swap operating systems.
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It's been a thought I have been having, converting my archived images from the proprietary "raw" to TIFF for the reasons you mention. A 'just to be safe" kind of thing. It's hard to imagine things not becoming more standardized in the future in regards to in camera 'raw type' files. You know, like 35mm film was.