On Mon, 16 Nov 2009 23:58:46 -0600, Morris Dovey
wrote:

Now I'm planning to revisit my camera instruction book to see what
non-jpeg formats it offers...

Don't know what camera you have, but it likely also offers a raw image
saving format which saves all information possible. Files sizes are
absolutely huge and not what most people would consider using except
maybe for professional photographers and people like that.