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After Over 20 Years of Efforts, DNG Is Now the Official RAW Image Standard
A long time coming -- DNG for all.
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DNG is now the ISO raw file standard.
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This should be good news, because it means ADOBE doesn't control the standard, and raw files can be archived in an ISO standardised file format, but, as you will know, it doesn't mean what many people might think it means.After Over 20 Years of Efforts, DNG Is Now the Official RAW Image Standard
A long time coming -- DNG for all.
The key paragraph is:
"The purpose of this document is to define a standardized file format for storing raw photographs. This file format can be used in a wide range of hardware and software applications for generating, processing, managing, transcoding, or archiving raw photographs. Since raw photographs are closely tied to the camera sensor and other characteristics, camera manufacturers may use and support their own Vendor Raw formats to meet various design requirements."
But it will be interesting to see whether camera manufacturers decide to work more with DNGs, now it's an ISO standard and not an ADOBE one.
The argument in the past, when people complained raw files even from the same camera maker still needed different processing, was that they were taking advantage of new sensor/Processor capability becoming available with each new generation of their cameras, So even if every camera produces files labelled DNGs and adhere to the ISO standard, it doesn't mean they will be any more cross compatible than they are today
Just as the DNGs currently produced by Hasselblad, Leica Ricoh and Sigma, aren't "processing" cross-compatible between manufacturers or even cameras from the same manufacturer.
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A bit of TDAfter Over 20 Years of Efforts, DNG Is Now the Official RAW Image Standard
A long time coming -- DNG for all.
R it all ......I surmise it will take some time/effort to push for full adoption of all manufacturers to switch from their proprietary raw formats, if they do?
IMO & AFAIK jpeg as a 'standard' is open and not tied to a single company but for Adobe what are the up & down sides to in effect becoming a de facto international standard for raw file format?
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Dng is just a container, just like tiff is. And (almost?) all raw formats are tiff based.
In the end I don't think it will amount to much; there is also an ISO/IEC standard document format (OpenDocument) which has been around for 20 years.
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Quite! A DNG may have many flavours, just as may a NEF - or indeed a PDF. So let the idealists sink back into their beds, as we get on with our lives ...
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Nice to see that Pentax is 20 years ahead of everyone else, I've been capturing DNGs since my 2006 K10D and still use it on my K-1. Which means that I can filter the images taken on Pentax in NX Studio....