Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/12/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]The current version of iPhoto does process dng's from the M8. Now if I could only figure out how to control the size of the images. Gene -------------- Original message ---------------------- From: <afirkin@afirkin.com> > > > Can't speak for the NEF files, but it works fine with Olympus (and LEica > DNG) I > got LR because aperture and iView could not handle DNG and i > view lost the ability to handle raw Olyp format somehow (bought out by MS > was my > suspicion). As you say, its a very fast moving target. Good luck > --- dlridings@gmail.com wrote: > > From: "Daniel Ridings" <dlridings@gmail.com> > To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org> > Subject: Re: [Leica] RAW archiving AND Lightroom > Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2007 10:45:10 +0100 > > 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. > > I re-installed LIghtroom with the repair option. > > I rebooted. > > I uninstalled LIghtroom completely. > > All to no avail. Lightroom was freezing everytime I tried to go near > the Slideshow or Web tabs and most of the times when I tried to go > from Library to Develop. > > So I renamed my archive where all of the NEF files were and forced > Lightroom to start from scratch. > > I re-imported everything and allowed Lightroom to convert from NEF to DNG. > > This time everything works. > > Adobe Lightroom can, as it seems, not work with Nikon raw files. It > wants to convert (and lose information) to its own DNG format. Then it > works. > > Digital photography is not a mature working tool, it is a moving target. > > Daniel > > > > > > On Dec 9, 2007 9:43 AM, Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand@gmail.com> wrote: > > Surely Adobe is trying to pull a Microsoft on us? Surely Nikon & Canon > > have > > less incentive to do so? > > Cheers > > Jayanand > > > > > > On Dec 9, 2007 12:51 PM, Brian Reid <reid@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> wrote: > > > > > DNG is documented. > > > > > > > > > > Whyconvert to DNG? Keep the RAW files and a couple of copies of the > > > > converter software of choice backed up in removable hard drives.. I > > > presume > > > > that Nikon and Canon will at least survive as long as Adobe - I also > > > trust > > > > them far more than I trust Adobe in all this. > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Leica Users Group. > > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Leica Users Group. > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information