I hear you ... thks! alex wetmore wrote: > Yes. > > TIFF files have already gone through processing on the camera though > (bayer processing and reduced to 8bits). They are also larger (17m vs > 13m). You really want to use RAW if you don't want to use JPEG. > > You don't need to use Photoshop CS to process RAW, it just seems to > have the best implementation of it right now. You can use the Pentax > photo lab to convert RAW to 16-bit TIFF and process that in Photoshop.
> > On Mon, 16 Feb 2004, Shel Belinkoff wrote: > > The only thing about moving to the istd is that I'd probably > > want/need to upgrade Photoshop to CS ... and that might mean > > investing more $$ into additional computer resources. I'm > > not a JPEG shooter when I want the highest quality, so it > > would be RAW or TIFF for me, I suppose. The istd does use > > TIFF, right?