Writing tiff image files

I'm trying to save an image as an uncompressed tiff. I have seen several ways to do this but I'm have a hard time figuring out the differences between them. I just want to save my BufferedImage as a tiff without losing any information. If someone could tell me the best way to do this that would be great. These are the three methods I have been using. Thanks.

1)

Iterator writers = ImageIO.getImageWritersByFormatName("tiff");

ImageWriter writer = (ImageWriter)writers.next();

ImageOutputStream out = ImageIO.createImageOutputStream(file);

writer.setOutput(out);

writer.write(image);

2)

FileOutputStream out =new FileOutputStream(file);

TIFFEncodeParam param =new TIFFEncodeParam();

param.setCompression(TIFFEncodeParam.COMPRESSION_NONE);

ImageEncoder encoder = ImageCodec.createImageEncoder("TIFF", out, param);

encoder.encode(image);

3)

ImageIO.write(image,"tiff", file);

[1112 byte] By [CanesVa] at [2007-11-27 9:19:46]