what do people think about saving my raw scans
as LZW tiff's?
I am making 48 bit 6x7 scans on Nikon 8000, and
they are over 500Mb each, so lossless compression would save a hell of a
lot of space, but what are the drawbacks? can most programmes decode them
if I send them to people on a CD?
Also, for catalogue/ magazine use what sort of
RGB file size should I supply,
something like a 12" print at 300dpi is
still 75Gb uncompresses, which seems big for most magazines
thanks,
Paul
One big drawback when it comes to TIFF's
with LZW (especially when you use it for archiving purpose) is that if
the compressed file (or media) becomes corrupt, it’s gone forever.
Uncompressed image-files however, can be opened and the missing parts of
the file will show as noise, the rest will be OK.
/Anders
