TIFF format is however very lose, and can accommodate compression
schemes that are not commonly used, which would make such files
difficult to read at a future date.
steve harley wrote:
On 2009-10-06 20:56 , Doug Franklin wrote:
[...] and I won't believe it anyway until the format has been
around and interchangeable for two or three or seven decades, minimum,
at which point I'll likely be long dead. :-)
i have some PICT files dating back to at least 1987 that i can still
open on my Mac
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PICT>
the TIFF format, on which DNG is based, is about that old too; i
believe that one can very easily get a TIFF out of any DNG, which to
me feels like a good bet for 50 years on
(the hard part is not converting the data, it is storing the files for
decades in a way that will be continue to be accessible)
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