Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/05/11

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Subject: [Leica] Re:Nikon D2X review now PS BS
From: gwpics at aol.com (Gerry Walden)
Date: Wed May 11 22:44:29 2005
References: <20050510205217.80922.qmail@web52603.mail.yahoo.com> <428188E1.5030003@edd.uio.no> <p0621020cbea747c08f71@10.4.1.193> <007801c555f7$93e1a990$3201a8c0@AUG01> <4cfa589b050511084651929c5f@mail.gmail.com> <33034.81.233.210.109.1115834097.squirrel@webmail.uio.no> <003f01c5565a$703eb3d0$24a0fea9@MacPhisto> <4cfa589b05051121547e847641@mail.gmail.com> <4282EB07.4020708@edd.uio.no>

I think there is more likelihood of .dng being around in the long term 
future than there is any proprietary file format supported by an 
individual camera manufacturer.

Gerry

Daniel Ridings wrote:

 > My point was that once you get your RAW file into Photoshop, you are
 > smack dab back into trademark protection territory (only in Adobe's
 > claws, not Nikon's). The PSD files that you really want to save with all
 > of your layers, are propietary. Exactly what everyone was on Nikon's
 > case about.
 >
 > I can live with it and I can live with Adobe having to pay a license fee
 > to Nikon in order to incorporate Nikon's files, or Canon's files or
 > anyone else's into their own trademark protected application. I just
 > can't accept that we hack on one of them (the smallest) and act like the
 > other big guys are strong proponents of open source. They are NOT.
 >
 > Daniel
 >

-- 
Gerry Walden
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