Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/11/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]You could just store your negatives in archival pages, in a dry case (the proverbial "shoebox") and dig them up in 10 years for use. No information loss that way. No need to keep an ancient copy of Photoshop CS around. Sorry, I just had to. Phil -----Original Message----- From: lug-bounces+photo.forrest=earthlink.net@leica-users.org [mailto:lug-bounces+photo.forrest=earthlink.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Harrison McClary Sent: Saturday, November 04, 2006 7:39 PM To: Leica Users Group Subject: Re: [Leica] convert to DNG? sweet barking cheese! NO! Kyle Cassidy wrote: > the only thing you should convert to DNG is your camera's RAW files. > DNG is Adobe's "Digital NeGative" format. it's a type of RAW. > > many camera manufacturers have a propriatary RAW format (such as nikon's NEF format). DNG is an open source raw file. one reason to convert your NEF to DNG files is that some day NEF files may go away but the ability to read a DNG file will, theoretically be around longer because the standard is open. DNG files are also compressed, so they're smaller than NEF files. Kyle, In theory I like DNG and think it is a great idea. In practice I am not so sure it is working. I can get any number of secondary applications that convert my Canon RAW, Nikon NEF files but several of these that work on the proprietary formats will not read the "open" format from Adobe. In some ways I think DNG is a way for Adobe to "marry" photographers even tighter to Photoshop. Nikon wants to hold Nikon Users to the Nikon software by encoding white balance information and Canon has their own formats and every Canon Camera is different in file structure from the one before it, same with Nikon. Since the files from the DMR are so much larger than those from the M8 I am assuming that Leica's "open" DNG's are actually different file structure also, so how "universal" is this? In the long run you better keep an old computer and also some of the old software if you want to read you Nikon D1x or Canon 1D files in 10 years..... -- Harrison McClary Harrison McClary Photography harrison@mcclary.net http://www.mcclary.net ImageStockSouth - Stock Photography http://www.imagestocksouth.com Tobacco Road: Personal Blog: http://web.mac.com/whmcclary/iWeb/tobacco-road/Blog/Blog.html _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information