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Well, you can compare it to compressed RAW files, which are probably the closest we've come in terms of lossless compression. Then again, from a photography poi
by hengheng 11y ago
Well, you can compare it to compressed RAW files, which are probably the closest we've come in terms of lossless compression. Then again, from a photography point of view, I do really like metadata, and I see no reason to omit them.
- kgabis 11y agoWhy not store metadata as a separate json files? This way you could have something like this: ff2jpeg --metadata image_metadata.json < image.ff > image.jpeg
- PinguTS 11y agoBecause it is a separate file, which means you will loose it at some point in time.
- kgabis 11y agoIf I understand correctly farbenfeld is designed for processing images, not storing them. And if you bzip a farbenfeld image you might as well do it with a separate json file for metadata.
- HelloNurse 11y agoNo and no. If you discard metadata (e.g. EXIF from a camera) upon conversion, they don't come back after "processing". And bzip compresses a single file, not two; it is commonly used along with tar to make compressed multi-file archives.
- kgabis 11y agoWhy would you discard metadata? What I'm saying is you should be able to extract it to a separate file when converting to ff. You're right about bzip and tar, but that just adds one extra step.