"Java Jive" wrote

| I only know for sure what I posted earlier, but it may be relevant that
| most of the TIFFs I've encountered have been conversions from the native
| image formats of Canon S40 and Nikon D5600 cameras. The example earlier
| was a TIFF from a CRAW image format of the Canon, converted to TIFF and
| by Canon's own software that came with the camera from an images saved
| by the camera as RAW rather than JPEG, and thence to PNG for use on my
| web site. For a Nikon example: 24.6MB NEF (I *think* their version of
| TIFF, but it could be their version of RAW) comes out as 10.MB PNG.

Yes, I think NEF is RAW. I seem to remember
there can also b special kinds of TIF, but I'm not
really familiar with it. I only know TIFs as the
standard Windows format -- a zipped BMP. So
I typically only use them to store photos saved
from RAW or JPG that I might work on or use
in the future.