A sad misunderstanding from the early days of digital. TIFF in camera is an 8bit RGB format and essentially no better than JPEG except for the lack of compression losses.
You can never return an RGB format to mosaiced raw data, but you can encapsulate it in DNG. It does benefit from some standardization, but little else. Godfrey > On Mar 15, 2014, at 10:18 AM, John <johnsess...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > Herb Keppler (I think it was him) did a review of the *ist-D and he said > that since the camera offered TIFF as one of the image formats, that was > the way to go because the TIFF standard was likely to be around for a > long time and the various camera RAW formats probably not so much. > > I don't know if you can convert them, but I think the DNG file will > encapsulate them. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.