-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of James Fry
Robert M. wrote: > Does anybody know if Canon will embrace the DNG format over the CR2 format? > I very much would appreciate if Canon (and any other manufacturers) would > adhere to some standard rather then their proprietary formats. If they want > to keep some secrets and encode it it's fine with me. Just give me access to > all the other functionalities. > >around. That is, unless you include the original raw file, which kind of >defeats the object of the format in the first place as you still need a >CR2 (or NEF,...) parser to understand that information. It would also >mean, potentially, that cameras have to double the size of the DNG file >if the DNG format cannot store the information the camera wants to save >in an understandable manner. Actually, there is a good reason for using DNG. I want to add IPTC metadata to my pictures. There is hardly any software that supports IPTC metadata in CR2 files but several do so for DNG. So the idea is to embed the raw file into DNG and then add my metadata in the DNG header. Robert * **** ******* *********************************************************** * For list instructions, including unsubscribe, see: * http://www.a1.nl/phomepag/markerink/eos_list.htm ***********************************************************
