Re: OpenRAW Web Site Launched
Re: OpenRAW Web Site Launched
- Subject: Re: OpenRAW Web Site Launched
- From: Robert L Krawitz <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 19:57:31 -0400
From: Richard Wagner <email@hidden>
Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 08:15:41 -0700
The OpenRAW Working Group has launched a new website
www.OpenRAW.org. The main aim of the site is to obtain complete
documentation of camera manufacturers' RAW file formats, such as
how the data is stored and the camera settings selected by the
photographer. Undocumented RAW file formats present a number of
problems, including limiting the choices available for image
processing, increasing the risk that with time a RAW file will
become unreadable or unable to be processed properly, and wasting
third party software development resources. The OpenRAW group wants
manufacturers to publicly document past, present and future RAW
image file formats.
Dave Coffin <email@hidden> has been decoding raw formats (in
dcraw) for quite some time now. You should definitely invite him to
join it.
I do have to say that Nikon's justification is one of the strangest
such things I've ever read. How it could possibly help photographers
in any way for that information to be encrypted is beyond me.
What's more likely to happen here is that it will be fully supported
in the GIMP/Cinepaint long before it's supported in Photoshop. While
that doesn't exactly bother me (one of my own big goals is a
completely FOSS workflow that's also the best technical solution,
period), it certainly seems a very strange decision on Nikon's part.
Fortunately, some companies take a more enlightened view of third
party developers.
--
Robert Krawitz <email@hidden>
Tall Clubs International -- http://www.tall.org/ or 1-888-IM-TALL-2
Member of the League for Programming Freedom -- mail email@hidden
Project lead for Gimp Print -- http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net
"Linux doesn't dictate how I work, I dictate how Linux works."
--Eric Crampton
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