My Panasonic Lumix has three settings for picture quality, two with a sort of dotted diagram and one with the word “Tiff”.

Any idea what that means?

Tagged Image File Format according to Paintshop Pro

tiff is an image format… as far as I remember, it is an uncompressed, lossless format – think very large files, but very high quality. It sounds like panasonic are using it to mean maximum quality.

the other quality settings will probably be jpegs of various compressions.

Dave

It’s a file format, like JPEG or RAW.

Short answer, ignore it. Long answer available on request.

You’ve stolen a camera from a car journalist?

Tiff – larger files, not compressed can store other information (camera settings, time of day etc) in the tags

Best quality jpg is so good you don’t really need to bother with tiffs.

Thanks!

On my old old camera the RAW format was TIFF.