Comments on: Lack of RAW Is Not DRM http://mph.puddingbowl.org/2007/11/lack-of-raw-is-not-drm/ finger doesn't scale Fri, 21 Nov 2008 17:58:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: mph http://mph.puddingbowl.org/2007/11/lack-of-raw-is-not-drm/#comment-3961 mph Mon, 26 Nov 2007 08:00:49 +0000 http://mph.puddingbowl.org/2007/11/24/lack-of-raw-is-not-drm/#comment-3961 <p>I know what you mean. I think <a href="http://www.macnn.com/articles/07/11/02/microsoft.behind.jpeg.xr/" rel="nofollow">Microsoft has the answer</a> this time around. </p> <p>Overall, I guess I'd prefer it if everyone would decide to get on board with DNG, too. There's no advantage to manufacturers to proprietize their RAW formats ... it's not like Canon, Nikon and Pentax are in the software business, and they don't show any interest in chasing Adobe down for reverse engineering their proprietary RAW formats on a monthly basis. So why not just embrace DNG and be done with it?</p> I know what you mean. I think Microsoft has the answer this time around.

Overall, I guess I’d prefer it if everyone would decide to get on board with DNG, too. There’s no advantage to manufacturers to proprietize their RAW formats … it’s not like Canon, Nikon and Pentax are in the software business, and they don’t show any interest in chasing Adobe down for reverse engineering their proprietary RAW formats on a monthly basis. So why not just embrace DNG and be done with it?

]]> By: Ed Heil http://mph.puddingbowl.org/2007/11/lack-of-raw-is-not-drm/#comment-3957 Ed Heil Sun, 25 Nov 2007 05:27:57 +0000 http://mph.puddingbowl.org/2007/11/24/lack-of-raw-is-not-drm/#comment-3957 <p>It seems like there should be some kind of sweet spot between "barely usable at all" (RAW) and "outright lossy" (JPEG). I don't care about the raw input of the sensors blah blah, but it'd be nice to know there aren't jpeg artifacts. (I know, you can crank it up to "fine" and it shouldn't matter, but still... a lossy format is a lossy format)</p> <p>I want a camera that shoots PNGs. :)</p> It seems like there should be some kind of sweet spot between “barely usable at all” (RAW) and “outright lossy” (JPEG). I don’t care about the raw input of the sensors blah blah, but it’d be nice to know there aren’t jpeg artifacts. (I know, you can crank it up to “fine” and it shouldn’t matter, but still… a lossy format is a lossy format)

I want a camera that shoots PNGs. :)

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