[Leica] RAW oir JPEG? :-) LIGHTROOM!

[jbm at jbm.org (Jeff Moore)]

2007-08-04-19:31:17 Ted Grant:
> RAW or JPEG?  I've finally seen the light! :-) Hallelujah! :-) 

Yaaay!  It kept bugging me that gen-yoo-wyne Ted Grant photos were
having picture information thrown away by an in-camera JPEG conversion.
The extent to which you can get wide dynamics from the M8 without weird
grayscale stepping, when you work from the raw files, is fantastic.

And the beauty of Lightroom is that it makes working from raw files
completely painless.

> But they do not compare what comes from RAW or DNG. If there's a
> difference between these two I have no idea.

The format for any given camera which captures essentially all the
information from the sensor is, generically, called RAW (or you can
choose to eschew the funky capitalization if it bugs you, as it kind of
does me).  There are different "RAW" formats -- NEF for Nikons, CRW and
CR2 for Canons, and then Adobe's attempt to define a universal RAW
format, DNG.  Some camera makers (particularly Leica) are cool enough to
use DNG as the camera's native format, instead of inventing their own
proprietary RAW format.

So RAW is the generic term, DNG is one RAW format.

Ad now that you've read this, you can forget it and just keep taking
pictures...

 -Jeff M