--- "Robert M." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks a lot for the links.
You are welcome. > matches with what you are saying here. The only > thing we disagree is that I > believe it is possible that the DNG can be made > flexible enough to > accommodate almost any sensor including exotics like > Foveon. (See Below) > By the way, what I said before was a guess about > CANONS's raw format. I have > decoded Nikon's raw format when I owned a Nikon D1. > Also I work with and > process digital images (gray scale) on a daily > basis... Well, you certainly are very well informed and I respect that, because personally, I have never ever even so much as laid a hand on a DSLR (my only link to digital photography is my Powershot S50). However, what I still think (from what I see - not neccesarily correctly) is that there is enough linkage of RAW with the sensor technology to justify using it, all the while maintaining a conversion process to DNG as part of the workflow (for archival purposes) perhaps by third party tools. Take a look at the url posted on another forum which is really a translation of the original and it says a lot about the reasons for Canon's current commitment to RAW: http://hobday.net/canon/ <Begin QUOTE ...> Recently Adobe announced their new Digital Negative (DNG) format. What does Canon feel about this new format? Our RAW format is our own proprietary format and therefore we can accommodate any information that a Canon camera is designed to produce. On the other hand, there are certainly benefits to using a standard. It is good for ease of use with various types of application software, for example. But it would also make it more difficult for us to distinguish our products and to evolve them in the way we wish. For example, even if it is obvious to us what improvements we need, we would have to move one step at a time along with all other involved parties. With our RAW format though, we have complete control over the specification and can improve it at any time. Of course I have no problem with Adobe working towards a standard format. However at this time Canon has no plans to move away from our RAW format. <... End QUOTE> - Harman __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Read only the mail you want - Yahoo! Mail SpamGuard. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail * **** ******* *********************************************************** * For list instructions, including unsubscribe, see: * http://www.a1.nl/phomepag/markerink/eos_list.htm ***********************************************************
