Digital BW, The Print

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>> 
>> Starting with the 200 series Kodaks, we were forced to shoot RAW (it
>> wasn't called that back then, Kodak stupidly called it a .TIF). This
>> moronic naming convention was copied by Canon (a Kodak partner for
>> the 500 series of cameras) up until very recently.
>> 
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> 
> 
> I feel that I have to correct this totally erroneous assertion, lest
> someone get the wrong idea.
> 
> .TIF is __NOT__ the same as RAW.

The point was not that .TIF and .RAW are the same, it's that some camera
companies gave the RAW files a .TIF extension. My Canon 1Ds saves RAW files
as .TIF even though they are not really TIFF files.

Wendel