differance between tiff and jpeg

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Hi, jpegs are compressed, thus being smaller but with some loss of quality
probably only visible to professionals. Tiff's, being larger, take up more
space, thus you can't save as many on your camera.....
ChrisC
 
OTOH, if you take tiff images, you're able to edit without detracting from
the image quality - especially if you're planning on printing afterwards.
With a jpg, each time you do any editing on the image, the quality
depreciates considerably. If you zoom right in on a jpg, you'll see it's
made up of blocks, each time you change & resave the image, it adds stacks
of blank blocks in the image which really effects the quality.
Depends really what the purpose of the image is - PC display, or printing.
 
Of course the same could happen with a TIFF image as it too is a bitmap
graphic and made up of your so called blocks. TIFF images can also be
compressed with a lossy compression scheme just like JPG files.
 
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