Luminous Landscape Forum
Raw & Post Processing, Printing => Digital Image Processing => Topic started by: Damon Lynch on December 13, 2014, 12:07:20 pm
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"Native support of 8 to 14 bits per channel for a higher dynamic range" sound nice? Better compression than jpeg too.
http://bellard.org/bpg/
The developer knows what he is doing, with two big-name successful projects in prior years. There is a news write up here: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/12/12/bpg_jpeg_killer/
The sample images are certainly impressive. Let's hope one day it or something much like it becomes widely adopted.
But then again I see a lot of bandwidth killing animated GIFs these days, so perhaps I'm too optimistic ::)
Finally, as an aside, it warms my heart to see the old school web-design for the developer's page. It reminds me of the documentation for a bunch of command line programs. Extremely rudimentary with no graphics whatsoever. ;D
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It is good to see these versatile formats emerging. I have also been experimenting with JPEG XR:
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/groups/ivm/JPEGXR/
which will store up to 32bpc and transparency. I will read more about BPG and see if I can make any useful comparisons.
Thanks for the heads up.
Kirk