This comment amongst the articles and comments got me to thinking about the viewpoint of the camera manufacturers: "A common, openly documented RAW format would fulfill many of the goals of OpenRAW, but is likely to face significant resistance from manufacturers who feel their "creativity" and ability to innovate would be constrained." Do closely held and "undocumented" proprietary formats constrain creativity and innovation, or is that just a smoke screen?
Shel > [Original Message] > From: Doug Franklin > An interesting article showed up on one of the geek news sites that I > frequent today. It says that a group of people affiliated with a > mailing list called OpenRAW are trying to put together a collection of > documentation for RAW image formats used by various cameras and making > them available to the public. We'll see if the camera/image-chip > vendors go along with it or sue for misuse of copyright > materials. > > http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/06/08/014250&tid=227&tid= > 162&tid=137 > > TTYL, DougF KG4LMZ >
