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Microstock Photography Forum - General => Microstock News => Topic started by: Dreamstime News on March 09, 2007, 16:10
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Microsoft Announces HD Photo, a New Imaging File Format With Advanced Features for Today`s Digital Photographers More about it here.
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Yes, it's about time someone came up with an improvement on jpeg.
RAW is fine, but in today's world there is no reason why we can't have a simpler, higher quality format with smaller files and greater manipulation ability.
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well that sounds like good news.
I am not sure i totally understood though. With the HD photo format be totally lossless if we want it to be... ie .. just as good as a tiff?
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The best part will be when MS in 6-7 years finds out that it "forgot" to make camera manufacturers aware of the fact that they should pay a license fee for the new standard. If all of them have adapted it by then, which is absolutely possible, the $0.02 for each camera will see to that Bill Gates' retirement fund is again back in the black :D
No... that was a cynical thought.... they could never.... shame on you Jorgen, for making up things like this... ::)
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The best part will be when MS in 6-7 years finds out that it "forgot" to make camera manufacturers aware of the fact that they should pay a license fee for the new standard. If all of them have adapted it by then, which is absolutely possible, the $0.02 for each camera will see to that Bill Gates' retirement fund is again back in the black :D
No... that was a cynical thought.... they could never.... shame on you Jorgen, for making up things like this... ::)
Depends. Adobe has said something about its DNG (and tiff and Jpeg??) that it will be a royalty free format. MS could do the same.
I am more interested in DNG being more widely supported - lossless compressed RAW with jpeg thumbnail and instructions to convert RAW all in the same file.
Didn't MS announce this a while ago??
Leaf - my understanding is that unlike JPEG, the max quality will be a lossless compression, but lower quality will be lossy - Jpeg currently only does Lossy even at max quality.