I am blown away by the Canon Powershot70 but the specs show file compression as JPEGs only. I would use the camera primarily for medium-high end print and would need TIFF compressions. Would I sacrafice image quality if I converted the JPEGs to TIFFs in Photoshop or am I better off settling for a camera that compresses in TIFFs but is not as good as the Powershot70? would you recommend one (I like the Nikon CoolPix 950, Olympus D-400Z, Polaroid 3000 as well but not compared to Powershot70).

-- Cindy La (cindy.la@minarikcorp.com), April 01, 1999

Answers

The Pro70 does have an uncompressed output format which has the advantage of being small (because it really is raw CCD output) but the disadvantage of requiring a conversion step to "acquire" the image.

-- Ben Jackson (ben@ben.com), April 02, 1999.

hi Cindy, if you're thinking of the canon 70 I'd encourage you to check out http://photo.askey.net The guy who runs it owns one and posts tons of pics, he loves the camera.

Like the fellow above said the camera has uncompressed raw CCD mode.

-- benoit (foo@bar.com), April 02, 1999.

Cindy, We just bought a Canon pro70 to shoot houses/properties for our 3 full color real estate publications. It is the first digital camera that I have found that can produce the printing quality we need. One of the main reasons is the CCD raw format that produces very little color moire (unlike JPEG files). The 1.9MB CCD raw file becomes a 4.5 MB TIFF(RGB) when imported into Photoshop. When saved as CMYK it becomes 6MB.

-- JayR (jayrich@kern.com), April 02, 1999.