[Leica] Now RAW vs JPEG

[jonathan at openhealth.org (Jonathan Borden)]

  Tina Manley wrote:

> At 09:51 PM 5/22/2005, you wrote:
>
>
>> How about what happens in 5-10 years? Are you sure that these RAW
>> formats will be retained?
>>
>> TIFF software is much much much more likely to be around. It is a
>> standard format.
>>
>> Jonathan
>>
>
> That's why Adobe has come up with DNG as a raw format.  There are  
> groups like Open Raw who are lobbying for the raw format to be  
> open.  Software geeks can crack all of the raw formats available  
> now, but I'm not worried about that.  I just want my "negatives" so  
> I can develop them any way I want to in the future.  Anybody who  
> wants to understand and know more about raw should read "Real World  
> Camera Raw with Adobe Photoshop" by Bruce Fraser.  You will learn  
> how important raw is and what you can do with it.

:-)))

DNG is great. It is *merely* an extension to TIFF with newly defined  
tags defining the necessary Metadata.

DNG *is* TIFF.  My issue is hardly with DNG -- which is open -- it is  
with proprietary RAW formats.

So if you would prefer to convert your proprietary RAW images  to DNG  
-- go for it.

Jonathan