TIFF vs. JPG

[TrepOne]

Is there really any advantage to shooting in the TIFF mode with the FZ20. I have taken both kinds of pics of landscape scenes in Hawaii and cant tell any difference in quality. Perhaps my inkjet printer is not good enuf to distinguish between the two. All I know is that TIFF pics take up alot more space on the SD card. Anyone with similar experiences.

[emalvick]

Is there really any advantage to shooting in the TIFF mode with the FZ20. I have taken both kinds of pics of landscape scenes in Hawaii and cant tell any difference in quality. Perhaps my inkjet printer is not good enuf to distinguish between the two. All I know is that TIFF pics take up alot more space on the SD card. Anyone with similar experiences.

Look at the thread link given below... This was covered last week. Ask any questions, if you need more answers.

http://dcresource.com/forums/showthread.php?t=9130

Erik

[TrepOne]

I would consider shooting in TIFF is that I enlarge some good photos to 16X20 and 20X30. I enlarged five pics at Ofoto using JPG files. I had taken some TIFF pics of the same scenes but could not uploadthese pics for some reason which I have not figured out yet.

[emalvick]

I believe the reason is that they don't support tiffs on that site. If you read the help section in relation to uploads, there is a statement regarding that files must be in jpg format.

It is probably nothing wrong with what you are doing. You can either convert your files to jpg, which may not cause you problems (per the thread I suggested earlier), but you can also see that it is a matter of opinion.

If you want larger prints off of tiffs, I think you will have to try a different service. I would guess that smugbug.com offers tiff support, and I am sure many others do too. I don't know the photo sites too well to tell you.

Erik

[fnoel]

If you are going with printing a 8x10 at the 5 megapixel setting you probably won't see any difference. But if you are setting your camera to the 2 megapixel setting you may want to use tiff so you don't lose the color in printing. I used to own a 2 megapixel camera and used tiff setting to print pictures and they came out fair but with this camera at 5 megapixel using same printer I am getting amazing prints at 8x10. My printer is not set so I can print 16x20 or any larger prints but if you are going to print something that large you may want to use tiff just for the fact that it is a larger file and you wont lose some of the detail.

[TheObiJuan]

print larger or manipulate the images and you will see a huge difference.