[Leica] Re:Nikon D2X review now PS BS

[henningw at archiphoto.com (Henning Wulff)]

At 9:16 PM +0530 5/12/05, Jayanand Govindaraj wrote:
>I totally disagree - software companies are more likely to become 
>extinct than manufacturing companies - remember Micropro (Wordstar) 
>or Lotus or Borland. On the other hand Leica, Rollei & Hasselblad 
>still survive.
>Cheers
>Jayanand
>
>----- Original Message ----- From: "Gerry Walden" <gwpics@aol.com>
>To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org>
>Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2005 11:14 AM
>Subject: Re: [Leica] Re:Nikon D2X review now PS BS
>
>>I think there is more likelihood of .dng being around in the long term
>>future than there is any proprietary file format supported by an
>>individual camera manufacturer.
>>
>>Gerry
>>

The point is that this is expressly _not_ about a software company. 
DNG makes it irrelevant, or at most inconvenient whether a specific 
software company is around, as the DNG standard is published and 
available for any other software company or competent programmer to 
write a converter for.

Once you have taken your digital negative (open standard) and fiddled 
it with Photoshop and then saved it with layers and channels in 
Photoshop, then you will need Photoshop or a Photoshop compatible 
program to read it, but your original 'negative' will still exist in 
a non-proprietary format.

So in 50 or whatever years you might not be able to read the 
Photoshop file with the tweaks and intermediate layers, but your 
original negative will still be available to you.

I think that is worth something, and Adobe is to be commended for that.

BTW, saving it to TIFF is not like saving as DNG. DNG contains a fair 
bit more information, and is a lot smaller to boot.

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