Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/04/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 6:41 AM +0200 4/26/05, Nathan Wajsman wrote:
>Henning,
>
>What does it mean that Canon does not support the D30 anymore? You
>mean that the bundled software that came with my 20D would not read
>a D30 file? If that's the case, no problem, since I haven't even
>installed the Canon software... As long as PS CS can open it, I
>don't care.
>
>But I do agree that it would be far better if everyone used an open
>format. In the meantime, I guess the safest thing to do is to save
>things as TIFFs.
>
>Nathan
Apparently they are just not explicitly supporting it in their latest
software. Agreed, it doesn't matter much at this time, and I imagine
that Adobe CR will support it for a while, but I should cause
everyone who uses digital to pause.
TIFF apparently is a standard that Adobe owns. They haven't said boo
about licensing/protecting it, but they could, I suppose. On the
other hand, they're one of the proponents of open standards. TIFF
unfortunately is too large. For the 20D, it gives approximately 48mb
files which is a killer, and it still doesn't have all the info in it
that RAW does.
I think jpeg is generally safe right now, even though there are
licensing issues. It's too pervasive to go quietly. JPEG 2000 is an
open standard, I believe, and it's 16-bit capable, so it's a better
choice. Only it's very compute intensive, so you really need hardware
acceleration for it at present. I'd have to buy another computer just
to do batch processing of RAW into JPEG 2000, and have it running
constantly. :-)
There's no easy solution. For now, I think I'll shoot everything in
RAW plus larg/fine jpegs in the camera, and just buy some more CF
cards. Might not be a bad backup strategy anyway. Then I make a copy
of all the stuff on another drive, and an off site drive gets the
batch DNG conversions every once in a while.
I hope that all this effort is worth it, 'cuz I don't know who might
be interested in my photos when I'm gone! 8-)
The problem is that there are a couple of photos, especially of
family, that will be of interest in 100 years, but I don't know which
ones....
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