When do you use TIFF, if at all?

[grendel64]

Hi, I've been lurking for bit reading the posts learning as much as I can about my new FZ 20. I'm curious about the Tiff picture setting...when is it preferable (if ever) to use this setting? I've read some posts that explain the drawbacks (write time, file size etc.) and was curious about any advantages?
Thanks for all the great info...
Mike

[genece]

I do not think there is any advantage to tiff. I have heard some say that if you were going to take several photos that you are sure you want to PP and keep to use tiff.
But my take on that would be to not use tiff and bracket the exposure and shoot several bursts instead of one photo.
I read somewhere that there seemed to be no advantage to Tiff and even if there was, if you need to ask about it, you don't need it.

There is an advantage to shooting in raw as far as Post Processing, but Tiff does not share that advantage.

This is a pretty good article on the subject
http://www.kenrockwell.com/tech/raw.htm

And this can keep you reading for quite a while
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=tiff+vs+jpg&btnG=Google+Search


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[bracko]

i do find the images are sharper with tiff rather than the jpeg.

if you are sending flyers and other advertising material to printers they usually prefer tiff format. so why not start and finish with the same file rather than compress, process, then reformat.

[behr655]

TIFF is a loseless compression . No data is lost using this format, that is why the files are so much larger than JPGs. When files are saved in JPG there is data lose so the image is degraded.

Bear

[shu246]

one reason i got the FZ20 was to take pictures of wife's artwork (watercolor and pastel). i take these in .tiff format. (pin up to cork-board in my flourescent lighted, white-painted-wall framing studio; white balance on a greycard, camera on small tripod on framing bench; iso 80, f/2.8, 1/20; 2 second delay timer to kill any jiggle).

after cropping and tinkering with the histogram, i print these on a 600dpi color printer to letter size with excellent quality, to ledger (11x17) with satisfactory quality.

jpeg gives excellent results if it is not to be tinkered with, information is lost with jpeg whenever the image is altered in any way and saved anew.

knowing what i know now, i might have gone for a camera with raw format rather than tiff, but i don't think there is a better camera in a single package (without getting into interchangeable lenses) than the fz20.