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Heh. As a photographer I'm not sure what utility this would have for someone like me. The last thing I want to do is smash my glorious high-bit-depth RAW files with LR adjustments into 8 bit low quality JPEGs. And if I did, ol' Photoshop can do that with image macros, and Lightroom can do it with an export. Storage costs are so cheap now and continue to fall, even a guy like me with 5TB+ of images isn't panicking about how to archive this stuff. A 9TB RAID5 is cheap as dirt compared to the rest of the costs of photography, a few rotating externals to back up is also cheap, and cloud backup is mostly only limited by network speeds. Glacier will archive stuff for $4 per month per terabyte (and falling), there is zero need in most circumstances to archive at such a terribly lossy quality level, at least in my industry. Maybe there are other applications out there, I dunno.


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