[MCN-L] RAW vs. TIF

[Jeff L. La Clair]

Our photographer shoots all in raw.  File size is about 20 to 30MB.  We keep them on two external HD's (One off site, one in his lab), then when that gets filled, we buy him two more.  We put tiff's and JPG's out on the server (for TMS and reproduction).  Our photographer says that when you convert to Tiff or JPG all settings from RAW are gone.
>From a conference I attended, the RAWS should not be in a proprietary format (esp if you want to access them 20, 50, 100 years from now and that company is out of business), however we are in a proprietary format for now (hopefully sinar and adobe can work on a resolution so both will be compatible).
Jeff


-----Original Message-----
From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu] On Behalf Of Anna Holloway
Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 12:20 PM
To: Museum Computer Network Listserv
Subject: Re: [MCN-L] RAW vs. TIF

This is what our staff photographer has to say.....

"I shoot almost always in Raw mode.  It lets me decide how I want the final image to look as opposed to the camera's software deciding what IT thinks looks best.  The only exception to this is when I am shooting events and will be shooting hundreds of photos.  Then I will let the camera do it's thing and shoot jpegs.  Raw is more time consuming but once you have your workflow down, the extra time is negligible and the final results can make it worth it.

My 2¢.

Jason"

Hope that helps!

Anna Holloway, Vice President, Collections & Programs
The Mariners' Museum
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-----Original Message-----
From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu] On Behalf Of Kathy Amoroso
Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 10:42 AM
To: mcn-l at mcn.edu
Subject: [MCN-L] RAW vs. TIF

Hello all,

I am new to this group so pardon me if this discussion has already
happened. If it has, please direct me to the correct month in the archive.

I was wondering what the museum trend is now for using RAW format files in
photography of digital objects. We at Maine Memory Network
(www.mainememory.net) have a camera that saves RAW and JPG and for now
have been sticking with JPG. We are getting questioned internally about
RAW, however. We save our scans as TIF and then convert them to JPG for
the website. Any thoughts on the subject would be greatly appreciated.

************************
Kathy Amoroso
Director of Digital Projects, kamoroso at mainehistory.org
Maine Historical Society, 489 Congress Street, Portland, ME 04101


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