instal the new version for iphoneExifTool 12.70

Changing the Capture Preferences, I can switch between a JPG and FPX. Take my Kodak DC260 zoom camera, circa 1998. There was also a few early digital camera’s which could capture directly to the format.

There are a few stories left behind of those who scanned all their photos to the FlashPix format only to find a few years later it was unsupported on more modern computers. Either way, the format had a lot of hype in the late 1990’s, but by the year 2000, it had gone silent and all the websites went away.įlashPix did have a big impact, and there were many software and hardware devices which were made compatible. So what happened, why didn’t the format catch on? Some say it was the size of storing multiple resolutions in one file, others believe it was the complicated Compound Object structure that lead to its demise. Many graphics software started to include support for the new format, including Adobe Photoshop. There was a lot of hype, some even calling it, “ Not your Grandma’s format“. The format was made official in June of 1996, with a Whitepaper explaining all the benefits and architecture. Kodak marketed the format and even included it as a native file format to some of its new digital cameras. Kodak partnered with some big names, Microsoft Corporation, Hewlett-Packard Company and Live Picture, Inc, were among them.

Some of the FlashPix files generated by Picture It! even have the same identifiers in the CompObj header.įlashPix was supposed to be the answer to all the problems with storing bitmap image data and how we view the web. have the same basic structure in a Compound Object format. I briefly mentioned FlashPix on an earlier post about the Microsoft Picture It! format. The Kodak PCD, PhotoCD or Image PAC files was one that was used for awhile before it was abandoned. Kodak came up with a few ideas to do this as well. Even the semi popular JPEG2000 added multiple resolutions to improve the JPEG format. There have been a few attempts to have a single file contain multiple resolutions with the purpose of providing resolutions for different uses, lower-resolution for web and higher-resolution for print. Is there a perfect raster image format? TIFF has been around quite some time and is generally accepted as a preferred preservation format.

Instal the new version for iphoneExifTool 12.70