Quote Originally Posted by tayl0124
not really a backup question but a spin-off from this topic. If you can zip(compress) a file without losing quality or detail, why can't there be a format that we can shoot or convert to that lowers the file size but doesn't lose detail???
A zip would do that, but with a photo there would be very little compression. Try zipping a bitmap file. Zip only removes where there is actually no information. A photo file has very little of that while something like an Excel file is mostly non-information. Actually, I think a tiff file removes zero-info data. - TF