Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/12/09

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Subject: [Leica] RAW archiving AND Lightroom
From: abridge at gmail.com (Adam Bridge)
Date: Sun Dec 9 17:30:34 2007
References: <a2f8f4470712090145h7ca4db63gd115fd2888d418a7@mail.gmail.com>

Then you must not use Photoshop's RAW processor at all? Because doing
so means that you believe that Photoshop can extract all the
information from the RAW file, however it is formatted. If you do use
Photoshop to process RAW files then you have a consistency problem in
your logic.

Adam

On Dec 9, 2007 1:45 AM, Daniel Ridings <dlridings@gmail.com> wrote:
> Well ... I figured out my LightRoom problem.
>
> I had saved my files in the archive that Lightroom works with
> directly. This time I didn't let Lightroom convert them to DNG files.
>
> I've always felt a bit suspicious about DNG files.
>
> Ok ... their documented.
>
> Ok ... NEF files, by implication, are not documented.
>
> And ...
>
> I am supposed to believe that Adobe can extract all possible
> information (lossless conversion) from NEF to DNG when NEF is not
> documented? Come on now. That's marketing by Adobe, not a question of
> documentation or not.
>
> Anyway. If you use Adobe's Lightroom you simply have to convert to their 
> format.
>

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