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Normal people use jpeg. It's good enough, much like mpeg-2 was good enough for DVDs. Compatibility always beats storage efficiency. Photography nerds will reli

Normal people use jpeg. It's good enough, much like mpeg-2 was good enough for DVDs. Compatibility always beats storage efficiency. Photography nerds will religiously store raw images that they then never touch. They're like compliance records.

munchler 1y ago
I think most photography nerds who want to save edited images to a lossless format will use TIFF, which is very different from the proprietary "raw" files that come out straight out of the camera.
- IAmBroom 1y ago
  You'd be wrong in my experience. No photog nerd wants EVEN MORE POSTPROCESSING.
  - munchler 1y ago
    I don't understand. You've got to save the edited result in a file somehow. What format do you use?
    - msephton 1y ago
      The file as it comes out of the camera, so-called raw, is a family of formats. Usually such files are kept untouched and any edits are saved in a lightweight settings file (in the format of your editing app) alongside the original.
      - ksec 1y ago
        And a low of RAW format are adopting or considering adopting JPEG Lossless as codec.
        nottorp 1y ago
        Is that like how javascript was named so as to imply a connection with java, in spite of there being none? JPEG is the ur-example of lossy compression. JPEG Lossless can't have any connection with that.
    - deleted 1y ago
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    - 0xffff2 1y ago
      I'm not even really a hobbyist photographer anymore, but when I was, the full lossless edit was a .psd and that was generally exported to (high quality) jpg for distribution. I have folders full of carefully curated raws. For the relatively few that were ever edited they have an accompanying psd. The jpgs are ephemeral and don't get saved long term.
- inferiorhuman 1y ago
  Most raw files are TIFF with proprietary tags.
Gigachad 1y ago
Normal people just use whatever the default on their phone is. Which for iPhone is HEIC, not sure about Android, AVIF?
- kllrnohj 1y ago
  > not sure about Android, AVIF? JPEG, or fancier jpeg: https://developer.android.com/media/platform/hdr-image-format https://developer.android.com/media/platform/hdr-image-forma...

munchler 1y ago

I think most photography nerds who want to save edited images to a lossless format will use TIFF, which is very different from the proprietary "raw" files that come out straight out of the camera.

IAmBroom 1y ago
You'd be wrong in my experience. No photog nerd wants EVEN MORE POSTPROCESSING.
- munchler 1y ago
  I don't understand. You've got to save the edited result in a file somehow. What format do you use?
  - msephton 1y ago
    The file as it comes out of the camera, so-called raw, is a family of formats. Usually such files are kept untouched and any edits are saved in a lightweight settings file (in the format of your editing app) alongside the original.
    - ksec 1y ago
      And a low of RAW format are adopting or considering adopting JPEG Lossless as codec.
      - nottorp 1y ago
        Is that like how javascript was named so as to imply a connection with java, in spite of there being none? JPEG is the ur-example of lossy compression. JPEG Lossless can't have any connection with that.
  - deleted 1y ago
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  - 0xffff2 1y ago
    I'm not even really a hobbyist photographer anymore, but when I was, the full lossless edit was a .psd and that was generally exported to (high quality) jpg for distribution. I have folders full of carefully curated raws. For the relatively few that were ever edited they have an accompanying psd. The jpgs are ephemeral and don't get saved long term.
inferiorhuman 1y ago
Most raw files are TIFF with proprietary tags.

Gigachad 1y ago

Normal people just use whatever the default on their phone is. Which for iPhone is HEIC, not sure about Android, AVIF?

kllrnohj 1y ago
> not sure about Android, AVIF? JPEG, or fancier jpeg: https://developer.android.com/media/platform/hdr-image-format https://developer.android.com/media/platform/hdr-image-forma...