Re: Counteracting data transience
Re: Counteracting data transience
- Subject: Re: Counteracting data transience
- From: Marco Ugolini <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2007 16:28:25 -0700
- Thread-topic: Counteracting data transience
In a message dated 7/15/07 4:14 PM, Nov06 wrote:
> What I don't get is why an an application that today can read Nikon
> D1 raw files wrapped in a DNG file would not be able to read the
> original raw files themselves. Or for that matter an application in
> ten, twenty years from now.
Because the original format was not standardized industry-wide (it was
proprietary -- the opposite of standardized, or "open"), and what DNG does
is make the original file readable by Raw rendering software that adopts the
open format.
> Show me any application today that can handle the DNG files but
> not the original raw files that are embedded in it.
I wouldn't be able to answer that. But the fact that individual camera
companies still choose to go their own merry proprietary way when it comes
to Raw instead of meeting the requirements of a common standard does not per
se invalidate the usefulness of an open format, which can itself be updated
and expanded as needed in time.
Marco Ugolini
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