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Adobe Systems Inc. plans to introduce a new format for digital photos tomorrow in an attempt to create an industry public standard to make the archiving and editing process compatible across all types of cameras and software.
Adobe, which dominates the photo editing market with its Photoshop products, is proposing that its new Digital Negative Specification, or DNG, becomes a universal standard for the raw format. The San Jose-based company is also launching a free software tool that will allow users to convert the raw formats from more than 65 cameras into the DNG format.
Raw photo files contain all the original information captured by a digital camera sensor before any in-camera processing occurs and thus gives users truer images and more flexibility when editing. By comparison, JPEG photo files are compressed images that suffer some data loss.
Complete Article: here
Download DNG plugin for Photoshop: here
Supported cameras: here
Adobe, which dominates the photo editing market with its Photoshop products, is proposing that its new Digital Negative Specification, or DNG, becomes a universal standard for the raw format. The San Jose-based company is also launching a free software tool that will allow users to convert the raw formats from more than 65 cameras into the DNG format.
Raw photo files contain all the original information captured by a digital camera sensor before any in-camera processing occurs and thus gives users truer images and more flexibility when editing. By comparison, JPEG photo files are compressed images that suffer some data loss.
Complete Article: here
Download DNG plugin for Photoshop: here
Supported cameras: here
this has bad news written all over it
i hope they dont *uck up the industry with this
leave canon and nikon file formats alone!!
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photoshop 8 ( or 7 and element with the raw plug in ) is the one and only software i know that can manage with most raw files and almost always faster and better than with the dedicated camera's soft
so i see no way for adobe to attempt a kind of M$ conspiracy with that new standart . they already have the best tool .
adobe is the one who can push the camera compagnies in the same direction to get one simple kind of raw . it may avoid the mess we re in actually , i m already sick enough with the smart media , compact flash SD card etc so i m really happy and confident , the next step i expect is that all softwares get the jpeg2000 stuff to save our modified file from the raw ( DNG ) file
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Would love to see something like this be adopted on professional quality equipment. The proprietary file types are just silly.
Definately in agreement with others who feel Adobe is best to be doing this. Camera manufacturers tend to not share with each other. Would have been nice to have around prior to the camera-raw plugin - having both nikon and olympus' plugins on my desktop at the time liked to conflict.
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Understanding Raw Files: [link]
Figuring Bit-Depth: [link]
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