Digital BW, The Print

Mark et la, Before you start bang'n the drum for DNG as a universal solution
to RAW conversion, can you or anyone tells us what is getting trashed in the
conversion?  Or for that matter what is getting processed by the ACR? It
seems to me that too many people are accepting the Adobe line of processing
with out question. If camera manufactures are indeed selling their own RAW
converter, is it just to get a piece of the processing pie or do you think
they might have spent some time to develop techniques via software that
produce better files? And if not them DXO, Bibble, etc are also available to
process RAW. 

 

I have not run the great pixel chase but I guess by other industry goings on
that there is something to be said by looking at alternatives to Adobe ACR
or DNG. If in the case of  Lecia, DNG is the RAW format, there are no hidden
"what ifs", they have already gone that route with their initial processing.


 

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From: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Mark
Savoia
Sent: Monday, March 03, 2008 7:43 AM
To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [Digital BW] Lightroom and PSCS3

 

Converting everything over to DNGs is the best thing to do anyway, 
very compatible with many applications, even simple programs like 
iPhoto 8. The Leica M8 digital has picked DNG for its RAW format, 
hopefully all camera manufactures will follow. Most DNG files are 
more compact (compressed file size) too.

More info:
http://www.adobe. <http://www.adobe.com/products/dng/> com/products/dng/

Mark
http://www.stillriv <http://www.stillrivereditions.com> ereditions.com

On Mar 3, 2008, at 8:32 AM, Lawrence Beals wrote:

> You can use the free Adobe DNG converter to convert the raw files to
> DNG and then CS2 can open them in its version of camera raw. All said
> and done CS3 is a worthwhile upgrade.
>
> Lawrence
>
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