kuzano
Veteran
I certainly concur with this comment
I certainly concur with this comment
My post was not necessarily saying there is no place for JPEG, but rather for folks to understand exactly what JPEG does and why it was developed.
JPEG would not even exist but for the need to downsize the byte size of image files for transport over a much slower internet during dial up modem days, and because data storage costs used to be so much more when it was developed. It's really been around for quite some time.
The real fault with JPEG is that in achieving the original goals for development of the compression process, JPEG must discard data (as mentioned, in varying degrees), and quite possibly data that you may wish to have now, or at a future date, in post processing.
Understand that changing a JPEG to TIFF or any other format does not recover the date from that first IN-Camera JPEG compression. It's after the fact and too late.
I certainly concur with this comment
My post was not necessarily saying there is no place for JPEG, but rather for folks to understand exactly what JPEG does and why it was developed.
JPEG would not even exist but for the need to downsize the byte size of image files for transport over a much slower internet during dial up modem days, and because data storage costs used to be so much more when it was developed. It's really been around for quite some time.
The real fault with JPEG is that in achieving the original goals for development of the compression process, JPEG must discard data (as mentioned, in varying degrees), and quite possibly data that you may wish to have now, or at a future date, in post processing.
Understand that changing a JPEG to TIFF or any other format does not recover the date from that first IN-Camera JPEG compression. It's after the fact and too late.