On Dec 18, 2007, at 4:09 PM, Polyhead wrote: > On Tue, 18 Dec 2007 15:53:56 -0500 (EST) > Mark Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Polyhead wrote: >> >>> I also refuse to use jpeg, png or nothing. >> >> Wow. That's bizarre. > > Hardly, jpeg is lossy compression. It grabs a square of pixels and > averages them, you lose both dynamic range and resolution with > jpeg. PNG is lossless and opensource. The other problem with jpeg > is that because of the way it handles compression, it chokes on > film grain. There isn't a way to feed a jpeg encoder a image with > allot of film grain and have it spit out a reasonable result. > People use it because they just don't know any better.
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