What is the most suitable image format for processing with imaq?

[Xontrol]

Hello.

What is the most suitable image format for processing with imaq?
I want to capture an image of a usb webcam, store and then process it with imaq. I need to know what format to save the captured image can then load and process it with imaq vision.

Thanks

[GregSands]

The only criteria is: don't use JPEG for anything scientific!  The compression involved with saving JPEGs means you always lose information.  I tend to prefer PNG - it's compressed, but non-lossy, and also widely supported.  TIFF is fine as well, but I don't think has any advantages over PNG for this application.  JPEG2000 can give good non-lossy compression I think is slower to read/write than PNG.