On Fri, 2008-02-08 at 21:01 -0500, Carey Fisher wrote:
> I'm using Irfanview (www.irfanview.com) to work with some photos.
> Converting a jpeg of about 1MB, 800x600, to an uncompressed
> tiff gives me over 11MB.  Even a LZW compressed tiff is over 8MB.
> Is this right?  I know tiffs are large but this seems excessive.

Assuming zero compression:

800x600*3 (assuming 24bit/pixel) = 1,440,000 bytes

Something is wrong. Are you sure you have your resolution right?

TTYL
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