Re: CALL for DISCUSSION: eXIf 20170115

Willem van Schaik <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.graphics.png.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Cosmin,

we're both Canadians, so I'm probably the only one on this forum who is 
allowed to say that what you put here in text is pure nonsense

> If you delete the EXIF
> metadata, you will have achieved infinite compression.

this is an uttermost crap argument

> thousands of grayscale images of a quarter-megapixel, acquired each
> day, by a specialized camera, showing micro-crystals. (I have actually
> worked with these images.) I can easily imagine other applications,
> with images even smaller, where compression is even more important.

well I can not "imagine that", when you (like us here are doing) design 
a new chunk, you focus on mainstream application

people with a niche use-case, like your micro-crystals, should define a 
private chunk, have all liberty to custom it to their needs and then use 
it as they like

> myself being a photographer who just upgraded from 1TB to 2TB

ok, so you doubled your size :) and then you have a problem with an EXIF 
file of 100k versus 50k in a 10 MB image file ??

Willem



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