Digital BW, The Print

> From: Craig Snyder
>
> I have not been reading the postings here on these cameras that closely
> because they don't interest me right now but something just
> popped into my
> head -- and maybe no one has mentioned it.
>
> I recall reading several months ago that Nikon has moved into a
> propreitary
> RAW format. Generally being out of the news I don't know if
> that's changed or
> what has happened since. But this item seems to throw a spanner into the
> works of a universal standard for the RAW format. How many pieces of
> software do we need on our computers afterall? Though I generally detest
> "one size fits all" sometimes it is a blessing and the ideal.

As I understand it, what they did was encrypt the white balance information.
Other software can still decode the image, but not the information put into
it about the white balance, so presumably their software can do a better job
of tweaking the color.

On the other hand, I don't know what information the camera has concerning
the white balance that didn't come from the sensor in the first place. It's
not as though the camera has a separate sensor to read the ambient light.

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Ciao,               Paul D. DeRocco
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