Converting RAW files to DNG?

8 years 8 months ago #449072 by Mayo
Who here is converting your RAW files to DNG?  I had read an article last week that made it sound that DNG was the future, and that photographers should plan ahead of time and convert now.  

Not sure if this was snake oil salesman or legit point.  Can you share your opinion?  

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8 years 8 months ago #449073 by Screamin Scott
Sounds a bit bogus to me...DNG is Adobe's equivalent of a "Raw" file but no company is safe from going out of business. Any of the "Raw" formats will be viable as long as the business stays afloat....As Nikon, Canon et al, change their recording formats, they will offer ways of converting older formats to the newer ones. Yeah, Adobe is a large company, but any company is subject to failure or being absorbed into another...Now if the person said Tiff or JPEG (a newer "lossless" version is being developed) then they might have a point as those are standardized formats, not proprietary...

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8 years 8 months ago #449084 by icepics
My digital camera is DNG; it gives me a Raw image and an automatically produced JPEG from that. (I rarely use that JPEG but may save the Raw as a JPEG or a PSD file depending on what I'm going to do with the photo.)

Supposedly the DNG format would be better able to be converted to any future formats that might be developed someday. I don't know if that will be the case or not.

Sharon
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8 years 8 months ago #449270 by Jessa Layton
This is news to me, hadn't even paid much attention to this.  


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8 years 8 months ago #449280 by effron
I save my keepers as NEF (raw) files. I work them and save as a PSD until I decide what to do with them. I never convert to a dng....;)

Why so serious?
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8 years 8 months ago #449306 by Joves
I think you read an old article, unless of course someone is bringing up the need for a common RAW format. While yes I agree that having a common format would be nice, it would need to be a fully freely available one. A few years ago it was argued that DNG be the common format, but I have a feeling Adobe was behind that. I have no problem with DNG being the common as long as Adobe does not hold back in sharing it so anyone can write a program to process it. That is one of the problems with ACR in that it does not have full capabilities with NEF, it can do a lot, but not everything. If you want to do conversions then download the DNG converter available at the Adobe site, just type DNG converter.


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8 years 8 months ago #449328 by Uplander
I will usually save as either JPG or keep as RAW files, never save as DNG.  


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8 years 8 months ago #449354 by PhotoViking
I'll convert from RAW (CR2) to TIFF.
JPEG for handouts - or photos to be posted/uploaded.......

Festina lente!
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8 years 8 months ago #449576 by H Rocky

Screamin Scott wrote: Sounds a bit bogus to me...DNG is Adobe's equivalent of a "Raw" file but no company is safe from going out of business. Any of the "Raw" formats will be viable as long as the business stays afloat....As Nikon, Canon et al, change their recording formats, they will offer ways of converting older formats to the newer ones. Yeah, Adobe is a large company, but any company is subject to failure or being absorbed into another...Now if the person said Tiff or JPEG (a newer "lossless" version is being developed) then they might have a point as those are standardized formats, not proprietary...



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