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

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Subject: [Leica] Does Lightroom 2 Support M8 Raw Files?
From: clive.moss at gmail.com (Clive Moss)
Date: Sun, 21 Jun 2009 21:37:04 -0500
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The really strange thing is that when I tried to run the the M8 DNGs
through Adobe's stand alone DNG Converter it would not do anything. It
only works via Lighroom.
--
Clive
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On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 3:26 PM, Tina Manley<images at comporium.net> wrote:
> 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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