I've always understood that jpegs continually lose pixels every time you save them.

On 27/09/10 11:13 AM, Joshua Juran wrote:
On Sep 27, 2010, at 7:43 AM, Malcolm O'Brien wrote:

I'd rather have the ability to make lossless backups of my photos

They likely come out of the camera lossy (jpg).

That only happens once. There's no *generational* loss as with analog copies.

Josh



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