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

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Subject: [Leica] Does Lightroom 2 Support M8 Raw Files?
From: hopsternew at gmail.com (Geoff Hopkinson)
Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 15:51:11 +1000
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Clive, the trick is that you need the convertor to add lossless compression.
Dependant on which convertor and version you might need to alter a setting
like update preview.
You need to select lossless compression in the DNG settings.
If you apply any change to the files, for example default conversion, when
the files are updated the convertor will then apply the compression for you.

2009/6/22 Clive Moss <clive.moss at gmail.com>

> 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
> Blog:  http://clive.moss.net/blog
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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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Cheers
Geoff
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Replies: Reply from clive.moss at gmail.com (Clive Moss) ([Leica] Does Lightroom 2 Support M8 Raw Files?)
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