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Equipment & Techniques => Medium Format / Film / Digital Backs – and Large Sensor Photography => Topic started by: rollsman44 on November 20, 2014, 03:35:43 pm

Title: Phocus Question:
Post by: rollsman44 on November 20, 2014, 03:35:43 pm

  What are the differences between the TIFF Preview when you Export?
   Tiff
 Tiff16  etc     Thank you

Title: Re: Phocus Question:
Post by: synn on November 20, 2014, 08:32:44 pm

16 bits/ channel will allow you to push colors further without clipping in post production. The file sizes will be a LOT bigger than 8 bit (Although using LZW compression will allow for a smaller file size without losing quality).

If you do extensive post production in Photoshop etc. after exporting form Phocus, choose this. Otherwise, 8 bit is more than enough.

Title: Re: Phocus Question:
Post by: Steve Hendrix on November 20, 2014, 09:21:42 pm

Quote from: rollsman44 on November 20, 2014, 03:35:43 pm

  What are the differences between the TIFF Preview when you Export?
   Tiff
 Tiff16  etc     Thank you

Dennis - for the amount of post you do, the standard 8 bit Tiff will probably suffice. Do as much as you can in Phocus at the raw stage and that helps even further.


Steve Hendrix
Capture Integration

Title: Re: Phocus Question:
Post by: rollsman44 on November 22, 2014, 05:16:08 pm

 Thank you all.