Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/05/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Jayanand, Cloud based applications are becoming more prevalent for good or worse. Not unique to Adobe though. Microsoft being the 800 lb gorilla of course. Your two favourite companies I think ;-) DNG of course is what we have from Leicas so I don't think it helps much to rail against it on a nominally Leica list . The format makes perfect sense for the small company. There's no endless debate on Canon/Nikon openly publishing their proprietary Raw data. Nikon at least do not. Nikon have issued joint statements with Adobe in the past. You can use Adobe applications with Nikon NEF files natively or you can convert them to DNG. Nikon requires you to have their software to access the encrypted WB information. How is their proprietary format not a monopoly and Adobe's documented open standard that any company can implement for free a monopoly? I shoot quite a bit with my D600 and had the D7000 before that. As is obvious they do some things better than M's. Personally I have never observed any practical differences comparing the original NEF's and DNG's converted from them. I don't care at all about their encrypted WB information either. I do prefer some of the advantages of the DNG's for my workflow. That is only personal choice though. I never installed the free version of the Nikon software at all and paying more for their full featured version doesn't make sense to me when I already use LR anyway. I'm sure that there are many people content with the Nikon offerings only. cheers Geoff On 07/05/2013, at 13:04, Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at gmail.com> wrote: > Typical Adobe behaviour and pricing. The power of monopoly in full flow! > They really are one of the few general market consumer software companies > that can get away with this sort of predatory pricing and behaviour. I > remember propagating the view during the endless debate on Canon/Nikon not > openly publishing their proprietary RAW data so that Adobe could design a > better Camera RAW, that the real danger was Adobe, not the camera > manufacturers, because they are a monopoly, and that is always the most > dangerous type of entity for end users. Now that axiom is coming home to > roost. I really do not understand why anybody would want to even more > firmly get into their clutches by using DNG (unless unavoidable, i.e. > Leica). > Cheers > Jayanand > > > On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 1:56 AM, John McMaster <john at mcmaster.co.nz> > wrote: > >> >> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/05/06/adobe_kills_creative_suite_for_cloud/ >> >> That should save some money, shame that they do not realise that we do not >> all live in the USA or Europe and have high latency to their servers :-( >> >> john >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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