Re: Apple/Adobe Imaging, DAM and Workflow
Re: Apple/Adobe Imaging, DAM and Workflow
- Subject: Re: Apple/Adobe Imaging, DAM and Workflow
- From: Martin Orpen <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2007 01:20:39 +0100
On 14 Jul 2007, at 17:32, Andrew Rodney wrote:
It was also useful to remind him of some of the current advantages
of DNG,
assuming he does shoot images he hopes to use in the future and
isn't fully
aware of some if the advantages of the format. Shame its an Adobe
product,
he'll have to move to DUPE or maybe just shoot JPEG.
Thanks for reinforcing my point for me Andrew by stating:
"assuming he does shoot images he hopes to use in the future"
My criticisms of DNG (and DUPE for that matter) are:
1. That Adobe (and therefore you by proxy) sell DNG by exaggerating
and preying on the fear of losing data
2. That DNG is much more useful for middle-men, stock libraries and
end users than it is for the creators of images who may actually get
a kick and financial benefits from reinterpreting originals as the
technology changes
We use Nikon kit on our rostrums. We've shot .NEF for years and have
never lost an image (even though the bugs in Nikon's software are
used in Adobe's most fearful raw horror/sales scenarios). There is no
sensible reason for us to take the risk of converting to DNG and then
trash the .NEFs.
As I have copies of all Nikon software and a lot of third party
software that can handle the D1 series NEFs and a lot of Macs ranging
from OS 7 to 10.5 - I cannot really see how those NEFs are suddenly
going to be unavailable to me in the future.
I can see that they might be a pain to interpret by other people in
the future but, being as they are *my* "digital negatives", I don't
really see why I should be compelled to embrace a technology to help
others interpret *my* work?
--
Martin Orpen
Idea Digital Imaging Ltd
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