TIFF (Tagged Image File Format): Lossless format, and popular among professionals because it offers flexible compression quality yet retains color and information.

The GIMP photo editing software includes the ability to convert your JPEG image files into many other file types, including a TIFF file. A wide variety of file formats are compatible with GIMP ...

The FileViewer utility also allows you to save in jpeg format. . .when I do that all the exif data is preserved.<BR><BR>What gives?

Canon has posted File Viewer Utility 1.1.1, a Mac OS X-compatible software application that enables Canon digital camera users to process RAW images into TIFF and JPEG format files.