Hi Miko, I happen to personally 'like' your DNG suggestion and am a genuine devotee of RAW files and actively shoot and store them! However, the archive I am creating is NOT an archive for ME or being created for MY use. It's being created for two equally important 'future' relatives - Someone who is looking for pictures of relatives AND someone (like me) who wants great image files to do beautiful things with. The 'Image Archive Industry' relies on the 100% NON-Proprietary nature of TIFF so it's 'future' isn't tied to ANY corporation or group of corporations AND the nature of the file format itself is designed for storing lots of information in the headers (in my case an excellent parking space for my 'exif type info/names,dates,titles). Further benefits come from the fact Any Tiff file is openable many decades from now because even if it falls into total disuse 'generally' all it takes is a programmer to write a program to read the info and retrieve the image in the file. This is a seperate question from the current 'media' choice for storing the group of image files I'm grappling with. No matter how wonderful your raw/dng file suggestion is, it's trumped by the 'benefits' TIFF brings to my specific situation. In my own personal archive I see the incredible merits of DNG when it comes to my personal image making.
Sorry Miko, The purpose of my project disqualifies your suggestion for reasons seperate to what makes dng & raw so wonderful. I dearly hope that 5-10 years from now DNG has the status of TIFF. LONG LIVE ADOBE - LONG LIVE PHOTOSHOP! Richard On Jan 5, 6:22 pm, "MIKO .." <miko.supp...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Jan 5, 2009, at 2:42 PM, Sam Macomber wrote: > > > At this point with newer systems they're generally all supported by > > Photoshop CameraRAW and can be converted to DNG. i feel that's > > reasonably safe since I'm seeling the useful life right around 10 > > years for an image, I don't see many calls for images older than > > that, even than with images more than 2-3 years old i only get a > > request maybe once a year ... > > I can see that for stock images, but for art images that develop some > "clout", a good print could be requested at any time. I'd love it if > there was a 50 megapixel dng out there of Ansel Adams' "Moonrise"! or > "Half Dome".... --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
