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"TIFF files are much larger than RAW to start with, so a conversion from TIFF to JPG is likely to be larger than from RAW to JPG."

I know and that is probably the reason. Good call!

Thanks.

What ho one and all,

I normally shoot for stock and my MO is shoot RAW, open with ACR, fiddle around and save as the largest pixel offering in 16 bit tif. Then I have plenty of leeway for PS...