I jumped at the chance to use DNG the moment Pentax supported it as a native
format and have continued with it ever since. To me it seems by far the best
way to go.
However if your camera manufacturer of choice doesn’t natively support DNG (and
you don’t consider that sufficient reason to switch cameras) you have some
unpleasant choices. You can continue to use proprietary format and
theoretically risk eventual obsolescence, you can double up storage by
converting to DNG and keeping both or you can convert to DNG instead of the
originals probably losing some proprietary info along the way. But whichever
route you choose I don’t think the conversion from something_else to DNG needs
to be supported by dt, that proprietary conversion is what Adobe’s converter is
for.
Personally, if I used Nikon or Canon, I wouldn’t switch to DNG. If I used a
less mainstream brand I would but that’s just my choice.
Rgds,
Rob.
From: Francisco Cribari [mailto:crib...@gmail.com]
Sent: 10 February 2015 10:02
To: Darktable-users
Subject: Re: [Darktable-users] DNG conversion
The main argument for DNG is that it is more likely that one will be able to
open and edit a DNG file using using specific software than a NEF or CR2 file
ten or twenty years down the road. I know of several people who are doing DNG
conversion for that reason. Additionally, DNG files are typically from 15% to
20% smaller than NEF and CR2 files and the DNG format includes a checksum that
can detect file corruption.
Best, F.
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2015 08:38:24 +0100
From: Pascal Obry <pas...@obry.net<mailto:pas...@obry.net>>
Subject: Re: [Darktable-users] DNG conversion
To: Nick Payne <nick.pa...@internode.on.net<mailto:nick.pa...@internode.on.net>>
Cc: darktable-users
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2015-02-10 8:10 GMT+01:00 Nick Payne
<nick.pa...@internode.on.net<mailto:nick.pa...@internode.on.net>>:
> My Ricoh GR uses DNG as its raw format (as does the Ricoh GXR), and
> Pentax SLRs have the option of using DNG as raw format. I also have a
> Nexus 5 which, with Android 5 and the FV-5 camera app, will capture DNG
> raw images...
Good to know indeed! But again if this is natively supported you don't need
to convert to DNG. So the answer is still that it is an horrible idea
to *convert*
to DNG.
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