Anyone ever Shoot in TIFF?

[Trixxie]

Hijack - Just having completed an intro to photography class, my inst said why would someone who is not selling their pics to a magazine want to shoot in RAW? There is no image processing (white balance, compression, exposure, etc etc) taking place in your camera while shooting in RAW so you have to completely edit your image in order for it to be a viewable image. And RAW between Nikon is not the same as RAW in Canon which is not the same as RAW in Olympus.

He said if you get the lighting close and exposure close while shooting in JPEG then you might have to a little editing on your image instead of having to do MAJOR editing if you shoot in RAW.

Personally I don't want to have to spend extended hours of editing to enjoy my vacation photos.

He said to shoot in JPEG, download pics to your computer, save pic you want to edit as a TIFF, Edit, then resave as a JPEG keeping your original image untouched. Backup your original and your edited copy at least one, twice if they are important. (you can delete your TIFF after you complete your editing. If you save a JPEG and then edit the JPEG, every time you resave the JPEG you loose quality on your image)

Just my .02. I am not a photo expert but I did sleep at a Holiday Inn Last night....

Hijack over.

 

[Papa_Bear]

TIFF is too slow unless you have a total set up, but RAW is the best way to capture any underwater image or surface! Easy to edit and PS will open it as shoot! So you don't do as much editing of a RAW than any other type! You just get to adjust for the best image! Shot RAW if your camera will allow it too! No charge for the Lesson! As far as an instructor teaching "Too complicated to edit RAW" Find another teacher!

 

[DandyDon]

Aside from the RAW discussion...

He said to shoot in JPEG, download pics to your computer, save pic you want to edit as a TIFF, Edit, then resave as a JPEG keeping your original image untouched. Backup your original and your edited copy at least one, twice if they are important. (you can delete your TIFF after you complete your editing. If you save a JPEG and then edit the JPEG, every time you resave the JPEG you loose quality on your image)

Just my .02. I am not a photo expert but I did sleep at a Holiday Inn Last night....

Hijack over.

He shoots in Jpeg, edits in Tiff, then saves as Jpeg...?

Yep, always want to save originals in a folder, then make a copy of that folder for editing, and keep those originals until you really really sure you are finished. I go a little further and make copies of everything to a Flash Drive seperate from the laptop for the duration of the trip.

 

[Papa_Bear]

Here is the Scoop on RAW! RAW is the manufacturers proprietary program they write to capture the light on their chip! It is exactly what the lens captures and transmits to the CCD or CMOS and on to the eternal memory! All cameras shoot RAW they just don't save the RAW file! Photo Shop was the first to include in their program a way to read and open RAW files! When you open them they open as shot and you can adjust the temperature of the light, contrast, and all the things you camera does when you set WB and other settings! The problem with TIFF files they are big because they hold all the info in each file including the editing program files and adjustments! Save your files as TIFF don't shoot them that way! The Cameras will waste battery writing them to the card!

 

[DandyDon]

The problem with TIFF files they are big because they hold all the info in each file including the editing program files and adjustments! Save your files as TIFF don't shoot them that way! The Cameras will waste battery writing them to the card!

Thanks!

 

[danclem]

Trixxie:

One of the problems with shooting/editing JPG is that each time you edit and save the quality is degraded. This is not an issue with the RAW to TIFF approach. I am an amateur, but very rarely shoot JPG these days.

Dan

 

[LowVizWiz]

Can the RMM (Reefmaster Mini) also shoot in TIFF?

Page 75 of the manual for the Reefmaster says: Image format JPEG, video format Motion JPEG (AVI)

It does not support saving the images in anything but those 2 formats.

 

[MauiScubaSteve]

DD, I used to shoot in tiff, before I understood raw; I shoot raw nearly all the time now. Your tiff file size is the same as my 5050 tiff file size (5 megapixel). If the shots might end up enlarged to 8"x10", 11"x14", or 12"x18" (costco's in house max), test for yourself to see if you think it's worth it. Shoot the same thing in both formats, process them on your computer and get them printed.

Ambient raw shots do require significant post processing, but often end up more realistic than white balance jpeg; on occasion wb is better (IMHO). Strobe or flash raw shots do not require much post process and raw does not compress like all jpeg's do. For what it's worth, all my print files are jpeg's, but saving as jpeg is the very last step.

 

[Fastmarc]

If your original is a jpeg and you open with PS and you do a 'save as' (so the edited version is saved as a seperate file) and close the orginal (with no saving), does that degrade the original file?
Essentially the original file would have been opened & closed in PS unless just opening and viewing a jpeg file degrades it?

 

[seaducer]

I shot some in tiff this past trip to Florida. I can't say I see a benefit worth the disk space. The pics were sharp, but huge, and not so much better than fine jpg that it is worth it, imo.

I would post one but I can't seem to upload them the photobucket...