OpenRAW

OpenRAW is a Working Group of photographers and other people interested in advocating the open documentation of digital camera RAW files.

History

After Canon decided not to add support for their D30 DSLR in their latest release of their Digital Photo Professional software, and Nikon removed features of their own RAW converter Nikon Capture and added the encryption of features in Nikon's D2x digital camera RAW format (NEF), on March 10th, 2005 some members of the mailing list D1scussion D1scussion founded the OpenRAW mailing list to coordinate their efforts to motivate camera makers to openly document their individual RAW formats.

This web site was launched officially at April 25th, 2005 with the goal to gain public awareness of the RAW Problem and is the first result from the discussion list.

If you want to support us please join the OpenRAW mailing list, or spread the word by using our banner.

Contact

The OpenRAW Working Group is coordinated by Juergen Specht and can be reached using this Email Adress. Please mark your message as "PRIVATE" in the subject line, if you don't want to see it discussed among active OpenRAW supporters in the OpenRAW mailing list.

If you want to print a contact email address, please use this one: OR-WEB{AT}OpenRAW.org.

To contact all members of the OpenRAW Work Group at once, you need to join the OpenRAW mailing list.

Credits

A special thanks go to the initial members of the OpenRAW Working Group, who made this site possible:

• Larry Strunk for texts, testing and overall help creating and maintaining this site.
• Rob Greer for the web design draft and additions to the logo.
• Bernd Gruber for the logo design and help with the corporate identity.
• Nick Adams for texts, feedback and support.
• Thorsten von Eicken for texts and feedback.
• Mario Westphal for the first official comment.
• Richard Wagner for the coordination of the first press release.
• Stanley Krute for the final text of the first press release.
• Jay Plett for redirecting the domain "openraw.com" back to OpenRAW.org, that's us.
• Markus Kreiner for the corporate identity and banners.
• BetterNet GmbH - Dirk Hartmann for sharing their research information.

More thanks to Bob Smith, Brock N. Meeks, Calvin Jones, Charles Bush, David Smith, David Cardinal, Eric Hyman, Erick S. Dyke, Gregory G. Harris, Iliah Borg, Jay Plett, Joop van Reeken, Joseph Grace, Josh Hawkins, Martin Prager, Michael Keller, Andrew Haley, Paul Ed, Peter Krogh, Peter Paine, Richard Anderson, Robert Edwards, Roger Loeb, Skip Higgins, Thomas Knoll, Uwe Steinmueller, Volker Gilbert, Rick Wallace, Warren Westura and Robyn Witschey and many more for their feedback and support in the OpenRAW mailing list. A very, very special thanks goes to Akirako Soshi for her patience and to Thomas O'Dowd for help with server issues.

Imprint

This web site is not in any way associated with or financed by commercial companies.

The OpenRAW.org web site is hosted and maintained by:

Juergen Specht
Nakano-ku
Tokyo 165-0031
Japan

The authors in the Forum are responsible for their own comments and therefore neither the OpenRAW Working Group nor Juergen Specht can be held responsible for their comments. However, complaints will be taken seriously.