Shooting TIFF images

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buz
Sep 8, 2003
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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?
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Ray
Sep 8, 2003
They are thumbnails file used by your camera.

Ray
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buz
Sep 8, 2003
so once the download to computer is complete, the are trashable.

Thank you
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Ray
Sep 8, 2003
I would imagine, as my camera deletes them as well.
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Byron Gale
Sep 8, 2003
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
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buz
Sep 9, 2003
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>

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