Thursday 11 November 2021

.tiff

We thoroughly enjoyed this revue of forgotten, now mostly incompatible and inaccessible image formats (previously) that have come and gone over the years, championed for narrow application, portability and compression and realise that not even the industry standards and most universal file types have guaranteed longevity and future-proofed. Seeing the ranks of raster images with the once familiar extensions (.wrz, .bmp, .pcx) disappearing into oblivion, I feel a touch uneasy when I notice native platforms importing and exporting as .webp or .jfif or .heic.