Digital BW, The Print

Actually the D2H and D2X do have a separate white
balance sensor located up near the prism.

Woody Spedden

--- "Paul D. DeRocco" <pderocco@...> wrote:


---------------------------------
> 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.

--

Ciao,               Paul D. DeRocco
Paul                mailto:pderocco@...



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