Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/04/26

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Subject: [Leica] Openraw Initiative
From: michiel.fokkema at wanadoo.nl (Michiel Fokkema)
Date: Tue Apr 26 00:15:38 2005
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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
> 
> Henning Wulff wrote:
> 
>>
>> Open formats are essential if we are to have any hope of accessing our 
>> images a number of years down the road. We're not talking just about 
>> 100 years, but as soon as 5 years. Canon is not supporting the D30 
>> file format anymore, and that camera just came on the market 5 years 
>> ago. I'm sure that the older Canon software will still work within the 
>> next 5 years, but what with new processors, system software etc the 
>> prospects don't look good after that.
>>
> 

I'm glad even my great-grand children will be able to open my albums 
with slides:-)

Michiel



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