The three main files a digital camera uses to store its digital images are JPEG, TIFF, and RAW formats. Plus it is fastest writer from the camera memory buffer to the memory card storage.

The TIFF is a file format used for storing images such as line art and photographs, developed by Aldus, now Adobe Systems, and Microsoft. A popular format for high color depth images, it is supported by many image-manipulation programs such as Pagemaker, QuarkXPress, Adobe InDesign, PhotoShop, Paint Shop Pro, etc. It is extremely high in its image quality, with excellent compatibility with the publishing companies.

Tiff can be modified and resaved, with the images being used an endless number of times without throwing away any image data. Plus the image is extremely usable, as it does not require software post-processing during or after its download from the camera. During photography shoots, memory cards are needed if using TIFF images, but more pictures can be taken with the same amount of memory space.

You can now download this image on your computer for processing. This means that you will need a very large storage area or memory space if you are going to shoot images in RAW format. Also, you can shoot very few photographs if you select the RAW mode. Also, this mode is generally not accepted by the publishing industry because it produces a 12-bit image.

Overall, if a photographer wants to keep all the original image data that was recorded, the image must be stored in RAW format.

Digital Image Formats – JPEG, GIF, RAW ..

Of advance the big affection is the full-featured video approach on the T2i. So abundant like how the circumscribed sensor provides 1.6x deepening for the Canon DSLRs, the circumscribed video approach provides deepening for video shoots.