Re:Canon's cloud platform has lost users' files and can't re...
by bscphil on Wednesday August 19, 2020 @12:56PM
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Thanks for the suggestion! I tested it on one file. Support for the format might turn out to be a problem: to use the flif command line tool, I had to convert my input file from TIFF to PNG first, which means I'd have to be extremely careful not to lose metadata if I started doing this for real. It was also pretty slow.
File sizes (DNG lossless, other formats 16 bits):
* DNG: 18.5 MiB
* TIFF: 84.2 MiB
* FLIF: 55.1 MiB
So while FLIF is unsurprisingly much better than TIFF, it's still ~3 times larger than the DNG, which means that a pretty noticeable amount of additional disk space would have to be sacrificed to store the final edited versions of all my photos.
File sizes (DNG lossless, other formats 16 bits):
* DNG: 18.5 MiB
* TIFF: 84.2 MiB
* FLIF: 55.1 MiB
So while FLIF is unsurprisingly much better than TIFF, it's still ~3 times larger than the DNG, which means that a pretty noticeable amount of additional disk space would have to be sacrificed to store the final edited versions of all my photos.