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It works incredibly well for a format its age. It's simple, and widely supported. Internally, JPEG has the key techniques required to compress photos well, and
by pornel 6y ago
It works incredibly well for a format its age. It's simple, and widely supported.
Internally, JPEG has the key techniques required to compress photos well, and nothing else. Most newer formats are based on the same principles, except each bit is upgraded to the point of diminishing returns.
HEIF and AVIF compress twice as well as JPEG, but in terms of complexity and computational requirements are hundreds of times more complex.
- busterarm 6y agoAlso, in addition to what you mentioned, we have jpegs because photographers are still shooting jpegs with their cameras. The economics of the camera market right now will make adoption of new formats (and the additional/more expensive hardware in the camera to support it) slow and jpeg is a very reasonable format for photographers to shoot when they don't want/need to shoot raw.