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Old 15-11-2017, 11:18 AM
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TIFF uses lossless compression and it also supports 16- and 32-bit colour depth. Converting from RAW to TIFF may lead to loss of shooting metadata (camera info, lense info etc) but you should not lose any of the image data. So it should not matter if you use RAW or TIFF, assuming a proper conversion is done, i.e. to 16-bit TIFF.

Regarding the printing, JPG compression is lossy, i.e. the quality is degraded to reduce the image size. The compression/loss factor is adjustable but some image detail is always lost. TIFF on the other side has a larger file size but always retains the detail. Hence it will look and print better.
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