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by erwan577 18 days ago
Do you think advanced users should consider AVIF/AVIF2 along JPEGXL for long term pictures archival ?

Which kind of encode settings do you suggest for conversion from high resolution RAWs or JPEGs ?

2 comments

For long term archival, JXL is better, the only issue with it is browser and device support
Long term archival is often also about long term support and there just going with the most popular/supported ones might be a safer bet, eg in the extreme case if I wanted to save some digital photos in a time capsule I would likely choose PNG and JPEG
I have been using JXL for all my personal photos. My photo server Immich will just transcode a JPEG to display on devices which don't natively support JXL.
Depends on if you want lossy or lossless.