Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/11/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Anyone who chooses can write a program to read DMG files - the full specification is out there - published by Adobe. Perhaps a more reasonable question would be to ask some very pointed questions of the software vendors who do NOT support it. Probably they don't want to risk having you run off to another vendor. I like DNG for this open specification. I like that there is a sole vendor publishing it and devising it. Having 10 different vendors writing a functional specification would result in no specification at all or a "devised by committee" solution that is soooo cumbersome it has no use at all. Adam On 11/4/06, Harrison McClary <harrison@mcclary.net> wrote: > 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 >