On 3/2/14 3:13 pm, Bruce Albert wrote: > Ditto. Absolute zero interest in dng and adobe.
Your choice, ofc. But it sounds a tad like animosity based on ignorance. ;) In essence it seem So you rather support your camera manufacturer's obscure/proprietary RAW format that is likely not even open? See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raw_image_format#Drawbacks > I could use dcraw to convert to tiff (as I do with Fuji RAF) if it comes to > it. > But it does appear that it is fixed in git. Who developed TIFF? Aldous. Which is now Adobe. Ooops. :D DNG uses TIFF/EP. Or rather: it is an extension of TIFF that offers the ability to store sensor data. Using plain TIFF will not preserve the original sensor data. I.e. you'll loose you the ability to de-Bayer with improved technology at a later stage because TIFF has no official support for a subformat that stores raw Bayer data. That's precisely one of the reasons Adobe did extend TIFF and gave it a new fancy name: DNG. On that note: not only TIFF itself, but also most interesting TIFF extensions have been developed by commercial entities or by people who had backing from a commercial entity (see http://fileformats.archiveteam.org/wiki/TIFF). Furthermore, there is, unfortunately, no open, non-commercially developed image file format to store photographic data with acceptable accuracy & metadata support, for the target audience of DT, that ever succeeded. *Open* format options are: - DNG (Adobe) - TIFF (Aldous/Adobe) - OpenEXR (Industrial Light & Magic) - Cineon (Kodak) - FITS (NASA, more or less) Of all these, only DNG and FITS support for storing undemosaiced data. But the target application for FITSs are astrophotography. I.e. unlike DNG, it is quite specialized. So I totally don't get why people are so negative towards DNG. Just because the entity who developed this TIFF extension happens to be Adobe. DNG is still completely open, Adobe has even offered to put the further development and governing of this standard under an independent committee at any time. Anyone can implement a DNG reader or writer w/o having to pay a penny to them. .mm ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Managing the Performance of Cloud-Based Applications Take advantage of what the Cloud has to offer - Avoid Common Pitfalls. Read the Whitepaper. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=121051231&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ darktable-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/darktable-devel
