Digital BW, The Print

> From: Wendel White
>
> 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.

Actually, they probably are TIFF files, just not the kind most software
expects. TIFF is a packaging format for image data, and can encapsulate
anything including proprietary data. In that respect, it's like AVI for
video files. You can wrap JPEG compressed data in a TIFF file if you want.
And indeed, the new Adobe DNG format is a TIFF file. It's just that the most
common use of TIFF is to wrap uncompressed or losslessly compressed image
data, so that's all most software supports.

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Ciao,               Paul D. DeRocco
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