Bob
Well there have been RAW converters/varieties discontinued in the past. Also there is no guarantee that the RAW converter you currently have will be supported by the hardware we have in the future. If everyone uses the same file format - then anything will work. Isn't that a good thing?
Presumably if C1, Canon and Nikon were to support DNG tomorrow you wouldn't be unhappy - even you? <g>
There have been many points raised on this list over the last few months about the varieties of RAW, the problems of longevity, archiving etc. I see this as the first step (not the final solution) towards helping reassure photographers that RAW is viable for other reasons than just it being the format to get the best out of images.
I don't think any other company could have proposed going down this route. Whatever your software of choice as a RAW converter, Adobe Photoshop will probably be used by a vast majority of users of this list and of professional photographers elsewhere, therefore Adobe has the stature to spread the 'gospel'.
Why is there so much negativity about this?
regards
Richard -- www.method-photo.co.uk
On 29 Sep 2004, at 08:54, Bob Croxford wrote:
If C1 stop making their RAW converter I will still have a few copies. Is there something which will make this obsolete in the short term? My guess is that there will be numerous changes and versions of DNG 'standards' before I come within years of needing it.
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