I agree that the proprietary formats are a bad thing for the
photographer and photography in general.
I'm a big fan of DNG and convert my raw files immediately.
I'm a big fan of having an open-raw format, but I have yet to see
a way that DNG benefits me. There is no open-source converter, nor even a
linux binary that I know of, so I have no way of converting my .PEF's to
.DNG. On the other hand, the plain-vanilla C-code of dcraw can handle the
only slightly odd TIFF file format that .PEF's actually are. I can be
assured that I can compile the code as it exists today on a future
platform.
-Cory
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* Cory Papenfuss, Ph.D., PPSEL-IA *
* Electrical Engineering *
* Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University *
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