Shooting TIFF images

[buz]

[buz]

I have really made some significant progress thanks to you folks regarding the image quality from my camera. Setting the exposure setting a bit low and eliminating EXIF data have worked wonders.

I was out shooting some Macro TIFF images this afternoon and I see in the downloaded files there is a correspnding .thm file for each .tif file.

Anyone know the purpose of the .thm file? Can they be discarded?

[Ray]

They are thumbnails file used by your camera.

Ray

[buz]

so once the download to computer is complete, the are trashable.

Thank you

[Ray]

I would imagine, as my camera deletes them as well.

[Byron Gale]

Buz,

I don't know what brand of camera you use... mine is a Sony.

When I shoot in TIFF mode, the camera creates a JPG duplicate. This is used
in-camera to review the shot, as the camera does not actually display the
TIFF.

Perhaps the equivalent is happening in your camera, but with a THM instead
of JPG.

Byron

[buz]

Thank you - I'm sure the .thm is as has been suggested - a thumbnail for the camera to use for preview purposes.

I inadvertently used the .thm images for a slide show in QPict and was amazed at how pixelated my 'tiffs' were <G>