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Converting current RAW images to Open RAW

Please pardon my ignorance if this has been covered somewhere and I just didn't notice it.

I was wondering if there's anything in the works as far as software for converting existing RAW images into an open format? An open format right from the camera would obviously be great, but it does nothing to solve the problem of aging RAW files that may lose support in the future.

I don't know what kind of technical problems exist for this kind of software, but it seems to me that it could be made as a batch processing plugin for UFRaw. Add in the ability to do lossless compression and you'd have something that's quite practical for backup purposes.

While I'm dreaming, let's throw in the ability to create a portable RAW file, something that's reduced in detail to get the file down to under 2mb that could be more easily distributed over the web.

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DudeMan – Sat, 2007/02/03 – 6:20am

You are a funny fanatic,

You are a funny fanatic, Barry.

First you try to push your own agenda by posting wrong statements ('DNG is lossless') than you back up and give camera makers the fault that DNG cannot have all data, because camera makers don't document it.

And thats exactly our point. DNG could be so much better IF camera makers would document openly their file formats.

We have absolutely nothing against DNG, but a file format which so far (at least the converted DNG) throws away data, is lossy and its too early to throw away data at this stage.

We made comments how to improve the DNG format for all the reasons you mention, with the sole intend to improve the situation and as you probably know, we are not in a competition with Adobe, far from it.

But your statement about 'anyone with an obsession about every last detail of metadata' really just shows how incredible clueless you are and how little you understand about this topic.

Juergen

Juergen Specht – Wed, 2007/02/07 – 10:10pm
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