On Tue, 6 May 2008, Chris Cox wrote:
Why would you want something un-EXR like in EXR?
Because they are not EXR? :-)
Why not use existing open standards for camera RAW images? See http://www.adobe.com/products/dng/index.html and http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/dng/dng_sdk.html
While DNG itself seems fine, I discovered a bug related to the Adobe DNG Software Development Kit (SDK). The download link for free unencumbered portable open source does not appear to be working at the moment.
The common theme with RAW images seems to be abject horror that sometime in the distant future, someone will invent an algorithm which is able extract an extra 10 parts per million of image quality from today's RAW image files, thereby completely invalidating already translated files. As a result, it is necessary to keep the RAW data available for the rest of time in case such an algorithm is invented. Without this fear, people would simply use the best quality existing software (e.g. 'dcraw') to convert to excellent-quality 16-bits/sample lossless TIFF files and delete the original Bayer data.
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