lamiaceae wrote:
You want the TIFF, learn how to process with Ps, ACR, Lr, or similar. Wow, I've never known of a camera to shoot in TIFF before, RAW, JPG, and DNG all the time. Makes sense as another pointed out that a camera TIFF would be like a Camera RAW.
No, a TIFF has been processed in the camera. A profile and camera menu settings have been used to process camera-produced TIFF images. Some people consider a 16-bit TIFF to be ALMOST as good as a JPEG, but editing a raw file, and a TIFF made from a raw, will reveal the limitations.
A raw file is digitized, unprocessed data, not a finished image. TIFF comes in around 50 flavors, but most of them contain some sort of bitmap and metadata (data about the bitmap array structure and the camera settings), plus a small JPEG preview image.