OpenRAW

The recent history of digital photography as shown us that every new camera brings it own file format : D30, D60, D10, D20, 1D, 1Ds, 1Dmk2, 1Dsmk2, D1, D1h, D1x, D100, D70, D2h, D2x, D2hs, D50. And this is only the beginning of a very long liste to come.
How many software upgrades have we done to be able to read their Raw files ? Every six months in the past five Years or so ?? The camera maker's have been unable to standardize their own file format, not speaking of a common one !!
As long as any third party developper has no restriction to acces to some critical datas, well I can cope with that, because there always be someone to program a raw converter for the canikon Ds100 under Windows 2200 or Mac Os 25. But what about if because of some so called "Industral property" the acces to some datas are "locked" by legal matters? What will happen when the camera maker will drop his support to one model..? Or stops upgrading his soft...
I cannot repair a camera that's a hundred years old, but I still can enlarge the negatives my grand dad made in those days. Even those he never "processed".
And I want my grand childrens to be able to do the same with my pictures. And yours, and those of all the photographers of all the forum of the world. Even if I used the most forgotten digital camera. And the original negative (raw)is always better than any printed copy (jpeg er tiff) because chemistery has made Huge progress in one century)
That's why I think What Canon (dropping D30 soft support) or Nikon (locking WB datas) have done Is plainly stupid.

Bien Amicalement à tous.

P.S. : And that's why I support the openraw.org

Originally posted a few minutes ago on the rob galbraith forum