OpenRAW - News http://openraw.org/taxonomy/term/2/0 en Sony responds to 2006 RAW Survey report http://openraw.org/node/1530 <p>In June 2006, the OpenRAW team sent out printed hardcopies of the <a href="/files/2006rawsurveyreport.pdf">2006 RAW Survey report</a> to the top management of Canon, Nikon and Sony in Japan and a few days ago we received a "thank you" <a href="/files/Sony_Letter_to_OpenRAW.jpg">letter from Sony</a>.</p> <p>The translation follows:<br /> <quote><br /> <hr><br /> Sony CS Center<br /> Service Quality Department<br /> Yasuo Takagi, Manager </p> <p>The letter and the survey report that was sent to our chairman was read<br /> throughly. Our chairman has instructed me to send an answer to you, so<br /> please kindly excuse that I am writing on his behalf.</p> <p>We have carefully read your "2006 Raw Survey results," which describes the<br /> opinions and preferences of consumers. Thank you very much. We have also<br /> visited the OpenRAW web site using the information you provided. The web<br /> site also displays a great many views and preferences from people in fields<br /> related to photography. We admire your effort to gather so much valuable<br /> information and for making it available on the World Wide Web. </p> <p>Some of the information is useful for planning and designing new products.<br /> We believe using this information will enable us to create products that<br /> will meet our customers' desires. We have already instructed our production<br /> section to refer to these data. We will make every effort to meet customers'<br /> desires to become their preferred company. We are grateful to you for<br /> sending us such valuable information.</p> <p>Thank you very much. Please pardon the delay in writing to you.</p> <p>Thank you for favoring us, and we wish business success and good health for<br /> Mr. Juergen Specht and Mr. Calvin Jones.</p> <p>Yasuo Takagi<br /> <hr><br /> </quote></p> <p><a href="http://openraw.org/node/1530">read more</a></p> http://openraw.org/node/1530#comment News Fri, 28 Jul 2006 10:31:22 +0900 Juergen Specht 1530 at http://openraw.org 2006 RAW Survey Report available as PDF file http://openraw.org/node/1525 <p> Finally the 2006 RAW Survey Report is available as PDF file. Download it from here: </p> <p> <a href="http://openraw.org/files/2006rawsurveyreport.pdf">http://openraw.org/files/2006rawsurveyreport.pdf</a>. </p> <p> <a href="http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html"><img src="/images/getacro.gif" border="0" height="31" width="88"></a> The report requires Adobe Reader version 5.0 or later. </p> http://openraw.org/node/1525#comment News Tue, 30 May 2006 08:32:45 +0900 Juergen Specht 1525 at http://openraw.org 2006 RAW Survey Results released http://openraw.org/node/1478 <p>On January 31, 2006, the Open RAW initiative launched an international survey on this Web site to collect information about the experiences, requirements, preferences, and concerns of digital photographers and other interested parties regarding RAW imaging technology and now we published the <a href="/2006rawsurvey/">results in 5 chapters</a>.</p> <p>More than two-thirds of the 19,207 participants expressed concern that they won't be able to open or edit raw files created by older digital cameras. The most telling statistic is the 90% of respondents who agreed: 'Once a digital image is written to a file by a camera, data in all parts of the image file should belong to the photographer who captured the image. Camera makers should publish full and open descriptions of all parts of the raw image files their camera produce.'</p> <p>The full reports are available at:</p> <p> <a href="/2006rawsurvey/">http://www.openraw.org/2006rawsurvey/</a> </p> <p> and the individual chapters are here:</p> <ul> <li><a href="/2006rawsurvey/chapter1">Chapter 1: Who responded to the 2006 RAW Survey?</a></li> <li><a href="/2006rawsurvey/chapter2">Chapter 2: Perceptions of the Advantages and Disadvantages of RAW Imaging Technology</a></li> <li><a href="/2006rawsurvey/chapter3">Chapter 3: Preferences about RAW Image File Conversion and Editing Software</a></li> <li><a href="/2006rawsurvey/chapter4/">Chapter 4: Experiences, Beliefs, and Preferences Concerning RAW Imaging Technology</a></li> <li><a href="/2006rawsurvey/chapter5/">Chapter 5: Preferences among Camera Features in a Hypothetical Camera Purchase Decision</a></li> </ul> <p>To discuss these results, please register a <a href="/user/register">new account</a> or <a href="/user/password">request your password</a>, if you posted on this site before.</p> <p>Thanks!</p> <p>OpenRAW Team</p> <p><a href="http://openraw.org/node/1478">read more</a></p> http://openraw.org/node/1478#comment News Sat, 29 Apr 2006 08:45:07 +0900 Juergen Specht 1478 at http://openraw.org