[Leica] RE: Trying to understand M8

[lmc at interlink.es (Luis Miguel Castañeda)]

On 17/09/2006, at 18:47, Don Dory wrote:

> Luis,
> I would tend to agree with you that Nikon has been somewhat unfairly
> targeted for not revealing everything about the software running in  
> the
> background, they have spent a lot of money coming up with ways to  
> make their
> images better.  I think part of the anger was that Nikon charges their
> customers for access and that the customers could not access the  
> RAW data
> effectively any other way

That's the kind of false moves that are common in new ground.
A unified format, or, at the very least, a reference format is an  
absolute need that will come up sooner or later, name it DNG or  
whatever. Those are just little fights to settle the rules, and let's  
face it, when they talk of big numbers right now, customers aren't as  
important.