Cool! I'll try that out.
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Polter-Cow - Dec 20, 2011 8:28:00 am PST #18948 of 25501
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Consuela - Dec 20, 2011 12:57:24 pm PST #18949 of 25501
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Here's a technical photography question: if you are hiring someone to take photographs for you, what format do you request them in? Like, for the purposes on both ease of use and long-term storage?
§ ita § - Dec 20, 2011 1:51:05 pm PST #18950 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Digital, I'm assuming? If you want the original no degradation at all, ask for RAW. But those can be huge, and they're not exactly ease of use. But they're not compressed at all.
Steph L. - Dec 20, 2011 2:11:43 pm PST #18951 of 25501
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
If RAW is too huge, tiff is the next best, because tiff files are pretty good in terms of being non-lossy.
Consuela - Dec 20, 2011 2:17:21 pm PST #18952 of 25501
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Tiff, not BMP? Can do.
Steph L. - Dec 20, 2011 2:36:03 pm PST #18953 of 25501
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
BMP are lossless, too. I think tiff is my kneejerk response since that's what we request from authors. (Not that we get it, damn you, jpegs.)
javachik - Dec 20, 2011 4:00:59 pm PST #18954 of 25501
Our wings are not tired.
BMP are definitely at the low end of resolution. Ask for raw, tiff. Jpeg at worst. All three of those can be printed beautifully on good photo paper.
Jon B. - Dec 20, 2011 4:51:16 pm PST #18955 of 25501
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
BMP are definitely at the low end of resolution.
I don't understand this statement. A format is either lossy or it isn't. I thought that BMP, Tiff and RAW were all lossless. I like Tiff because there's built-in lossless compression. Am I wrong about any of this?
§ ita § - Dec 20, 2011 4:56:28 pm PST #18956 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
BMP doesn't specify a resolution. It's lossless, but it has no compression, so it's pretty huge, so I'd avoid it. But BMP can be printed just as well or better than a JPEG. RAW files, as the name implies, are completely unprocessed, so you have to open them in a graphics application and process them, but they contain *all* the information from the camera's sensor so you can effectively develop the picture. Once it's converted to TIFF or JPEG, some of the information is lost. You might not want to do the work to make RAW into a printable format, but it does give you all the flexibility that's possible.
Amy - Dec 20, 2011 5:06:58 pm PST #18957 of 25501
Because books.
Android question: My new phone is an LG Optimus. It has a default music player (which I like -- you can make playlists right on the phone, etc.) which works fine, except it doesn't seem possible to exit out of it completely; i.e. when you want to stop playing music, your option is a pause button, and there's no "exit player" function that I can find.
The problem is, every once in a while, it will just unpause and start playing again. Any suggestions?