It means nothing to a photographer. It means something to someone interested in the design and implementation of data file formats. :-)
Don't worry about it, it's a bit of technical banter, that's all. Godfrey On Saturday, March 12, 2005, at 01:25PM, Shel Belinkoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >What does all that mean and why should someone (why should I) care if TIFF >values are used for storage? Does the format of a RAW really matter, and >if so, why? > >Shel > > >> [Original Message] >> From: John Francis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> While it does allow for easy expansion to 14-bit or even 16-bit values, >> I suspect it comes as a side effect of using an extended TIFF file as >> the basis of their RAW file format. That means they end up using what >> TIFF provides for value storage, and TIFF is a byte-oriented format. > > > >
