Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/06/21

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Subject: [Leica] Does Lightroom 2 Support M8 Raw Files?
From: images at comporium.net (Tina Manley)
Date: Sun, 21 Jun 2009 16:26:11 -0400
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At 03:14 PM 6/21/2009, you wrote:
>Yes M8 is supported by Lightroom - and if you use "Import as DNG"
>instead of "Copy" when you bring them into Lightrom they get to be
>almost half the size! Go figure.
>--
>Clive

The way I understand it is the Adobe's version of DNG compresses 
(losslessly) more than Leica's.  It doesn't hurt the files at all to 
run them through LR's convertor as DNGs and save space.

Tina

Tina Manley
www.tinamanley.com 



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