Hi KyMike---my understanding is this, if you are going to do any editing to your pictures then take them in TIFF assuming you have enough memory in your camera and on your hardrive. This also applies if you are going to print larger pictures. If you are taking your pictures for the web or e-mail JPEG is fine. Also JPEG's DO take very good pictures but will not have quite the detail as a TIFF picture (many can't notice any difference) But---how do you know if that once-in-a lifetime picture taken in JPEG needs a lot of editing? Editing in JPEG loses detail each time you edit the picture and save it. My camera takes pictures in "RAW" mode which is a smaller file than Tiff and the picture information is taken diretly from the CCD with no in-camera manipulations. However having said all this, if you do take your pictures in JPEG you can then save them in TIFF on your hardrive and edit to your heart's content because TIFF is a loseless format. You just don't have the same numbers of pixels in JPEG as compard to TIFF to work with when editing. For many, it's a hassle to shoot in TIFF or RAW because the JPEG looks fine even when printing 8 by 10's and unless you are a professional like RM (Rick Martin) you will probably be satified with JPEG's taken in the highest resolution. Anyhow, I hope this doesn't add any more confusion to the subject. Hopefully Rick or someone with more knowledge than myself will jump in here. I have taken hundreds of pictures in JPEG (superfine) on my Canon G1 and printed 8 by 10's which just amaze my family and friends.
Jerry
