Kevin, On 29 Sep 2004, at 21:57, Kevin Horton wrote:
I don't doubt it's potential but at the moment it only works with CS. If Phaseone choose to support it I will rejoice. Although I hope that the camera manufacturers support it, they don't really need to as there is the DNG Converter.
I am sorry, but I think you are missing the point. There is a sound reason as carefully explained by Russell - when the camera manufacturers realise that we photographers would like the opportunity to be able to save our RAW files from their cameras in a standard format, we will only need to set this as a preference within the camera and then avoid the need for the current DNG converter software - this is simply an interim measure so that we can make up our minds over this new standard. If we like what we see, and so far many have commented favourably on the file size reduction, then once the wrinkles are ironed out, the camera manufacturers will hopefully see that it is in their interest to write to just this one spec.
It is a storage format, not a converter - there will still be a need for converters, and the best will be bought.
Photoshop �CS incorporates Adobe's offering, but Capture 1 still sells.
Rejoice. I am sure there will be discussions between Adobe and the camera manufacturers taking place at Photokina this week, and it has only been in the public domain a matter of days.
Yours,
Rod Rod Wynne-Powell
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