Wed, 28 Dec 2005 17:32:38 -0800 John Francis wrote: > > I'd bet that DNG readers will be around much longer than anything > that understands .xmp sidecar files, not to mention .PEF >
.PEF files are read by quite a few different programs that don't understand DNG. In my opinion, DNG has not become a standard de-facto (and as widely used) yet as it happened to PDF format for documents. Yes, it has a good potential, but until it has been widely accepted as a standard, it's too soon to forecast. I also heard that there is an alternative "universal" format (was it NISO Z39.87 or yet something else?) that is also been promoted by some other group(s) as a raw image standard. (Sorry, I was not able to recall what it was, and don't have time to do a thorough search at this moment.) Igor
