Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/05/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Tina, I swear by LR and DNG too, but I wouldn't take the Adobe's gospel too far. DNG is just as propriety as Adobe wants to make it. Heck, Photoshop CS4 requires certain levels of DNG etc. Anyway, it's a step in the right direction, but there is no guarantee that 50 years from now, it won't be that Adobe is just a footnote in the history whereas Olympus may be camera conglomerate that also owns the high end photo software business and everyone would be using ORF Mk2050 by then :-) On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 3:23 PM, Tina Manley <images at comporium.net> wrote: > > I doubt that. DNG is the non-proprietary RAW that all of the Photoshop and > Lightroom gurus suggest converting your RAW to, whether its a NEF or a CRW. > It should be a DNG. The only reason not to convert is if you intend to > use > the camera manufacturer's RAW convertor. But who knows how long those > proprietary raws will be around? DNG is here forever as an open file > format. The file sizes are smaller as a plus and include all XMP sidecars > files within the DNG files. There's also something called Recover Edges in > DNG, that I've never used but is supposed to be a good thing. Not all > software supports weird raw files but they all support DNG. -- // richard m: richard @imagecraft.com // w: http://www.rfman.com // b: http://rfman.wordpress.com