Re: Counteracting data transience
Re: Counteracting data transience
- Subject: Re: Counteracting data transience
- From: "edmund ronald" <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 10:03:37 +0200
Yes, Andrew is quite right, this is an important issue for each and
every one of us.
Yes, proprietary file formats stink.
Yes, we can watch our files becoming unreadable right now.
Yes, companies should be encouraged to publish file reading code and
file specs after a set time eg. 10 years.
Yes, Adobe has done something good by advocating an open format.
No, DNG as it stands is not the answer to the technical issues of
rendering color from cameras which we on this list and we as
photographers face. It needs considerable improvement in its color
model. Open does not mean perfect.
Yes, DNG needs considerable improvement. Photoshop 1.0 was not perfect either.
And in the mean time, I continue to advocate support for Dave Coffin's
"dcraw" as a file import plugin or independent utility. Which can also
serve as a base for experimentation for those who want to research
file rendering, or write new decoders.
Edmund
I'm not sure how many of my legacy Kodak DCS images from way back when will
be able to be rendered in the foreseeable future either. We're talking less
than 10 years here boys and girls. Film I shot in the 70's, while maybe not
as pristine as the day they were processed can still be scanned and used. So
this paranoid concept of getting to our data isn't science fiction.
On the other hand, I was able to open a PSD I created in 1990, in PS 1.0.7
on a Mac II ci on my Macbook pro in CS3 with no issues at all.
OK, this may not be a pertinent issue for the ColorSync list in general but
it is an important issue.
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