Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/05/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I quite agree with you Jayanand. I converted all my raw files to dng for a while, but then I thought about things like automatic lens corrections and felt that there was a good chance that dng, whilst I am sure it keeps all the picture data, may not keep some of the other proprietary data, so I went back to keeping everything in the raw format it comes in. cheers, Frank On 20 May, 2009, at 02:53, Jayanand Govindaraj wrote: > Geoff, > I will take the reverse view - the evil empire trying for world > domination in graphics is Adobe, and I have no idea how they have not > had the antitrust book thrown at them yet. I have the CS3 suite, > bought for me by my son's friend who used to work for Adobe here in > India - I had asked for the standalone Photoshop, but he landed up > with this. To upgrade it to the CS4 suite here they want only the > equivalent of US$1200. I use mainly Photoshop, but they refuse to > upgrade the one program, and insist that I have to upgrade the whole > suite (90% useless to me)! No other company in the world can get away > with this sort of pricing and gouging. I have decided to skip one > generation. > > I have total sympathy with Nikon and Canon, and am firmly on their > side that their proprietary data is their own. Ask Adobe to make the > code for Photoshop open source - will they do it? > > Leica, Pentax and Hasselblad use DNG because they have no money to > support any thing else. > > Cheers > Jayanand > > > > On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 5:15 AM, Geoff Hopkinson > <hopsternew at gmail.com> wrote: >> Bob if the camera manufacturers weren't so fond of inventing new >> proprietary >> Raw formats, Adobe wouldn't have to keep reverse engineering and >> decoding >> their new formats to provide the upgrades free for owners of Ps. I >> think >> they currently support more than 170 Raw formats. Madness! >> That's why we have a DNG format. Thank you Leica and Hasselblad and >> Pentax >> for using it. >> Don't blame Adobe for Nikon and Canon's policies! >> On hardware any computer that you were happy with for CS3 will work >> the same >> for CS4. They have just added openGL support for the smooth new >> scrolling, >> zooming, flick panning teatures. Any modest half way modern video >> card will >> work. You can see a list of tested ones in Ps support. In fact you >> don't >> want a card with the most on board memory (unless you play games) >> because >> you'll have less RAM available to Ps when the video memory is >> mapped to RAM. >> Remember that if you use LR2 rather than ACR you will have the same >> Raw >> upgrades available. >> 2009/5/20 Robert D. Baron <rbaron at concentric.net> >> >>> Thanks, all, it sounds like the upgrade may turn out to be worth it. >>> It does disturb me that I need to spend $200 on this upgrade so I >>> can >>> work on the latest raw files (Canon G10 and so forth) and then I'll >>> probably need to upgrade my computer as well. >>> >>> Does it ever stop? No, of course not. >>> >>> In the meantime I'll look for the best price. Chris, I'm not a >>> member >>> of PPA....I was a member of NAPP but I let it expire. I know they >>> offer a discount but I can't remember how much. I'll give them a >>> call >>> tomorrow and maybe they'll tell me as an enticement to re-up. >>> >>> --Bob >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Cheers >> Geoff >> 'Life's not B&W, except at both ends' >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/gh/ >> http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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