{"id":10975,"date":"2005-10-30T07:23:12","date_gmt":"2005-10-30T07:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2005\/10\/more-dng-momentum.html"},"modified":"2005-10-30T07:23:12","modified_gmt":"2005-10-30T07:23:12","slug":"more_dng_momentum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2005\/10\/30\/more_dng_momentum\/","title":{"rendered":"More DNG Momentum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I&#8217;ve mentioned in <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/dng\/index.html\">past entries<\/a>, Adobe has been using its leadership in digital imaging to drive development of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adobe.com\/products\/dng\/main.html\">Digital Negative<\/a> specification.  DNG addresses the need for a common, openly documented raw format&#8211;a solution much <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rawformat.com\/\" \/>requested<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openraw.org\/\" \/>by<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.luminous-landscape.com\/essays\/raw-flaw.shtml\">customers<\/a>.  So, I wanted to pull together some recent good news on this front:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Adobe has posted <a href=\"http:\/\/biz.yahoo.com\/bw\/051020\/196204.html?.v=1\">a new press release<\/a> talking about Ricoh joining the ranks of vendors (Leica, Hasselblad, Samsung) producing DNG directly in-camera.\n<li>The Library of Congress&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitalpreservation.gov\/\" \/>Digital Preservation<\/a> project has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitalpreservation.gov\/formats\/content\/still_preferences.shtml\">expressed a preference<\/a> for DNG over proprietary raw formats.\n<li>Photographer Barry Pearson has compiled a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.barry.pearson.name\/articles\/dng\/products_y1.htm\">list of dozens of applications<\/a> that have added DNG support in the one year since Adobe announced the format.\n<li>Apple Aperture <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/aperture\/specs.html\">includes support for DNG<\/a>.  Aperture supports about 1\/5th as many cameras as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adobe.com\/products\/photoshop\/cameraraw.html\">Adobe Camera Raw<\/a>, but by dropping images from the 60+ cameras Aperture doesn&#8217;t support onto the free <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adobe.com\/support\/downloads\/product.jsp?product=106&amp;platform=Macintosh\">Adobe DNG Converter<\/a>, you can make the files compatible with Aperture and all the other DNG-aware applications out there.\n<\/ul>\n<p>PS&#8211;I&#8217;ve always preferred the nice, simple &#8220;raw&#8221; as the term for this sort of format.  Saying &#8220;RAW&#8221; seems a little aggro (&#8220;RAW is WAR!!&#8221;), like you need to make the little devil-horns with your hand while saying it.  The term is neither an acronym (RAW) nor a proper name (Raw), but rather a generic descriptor for a whole class of formats.  Therefore Adobe just says &#8220;raw.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I&#8217;ve mentioned in past entries, Adobe has been using its leadership in digital imaging to drive development of the Digital Negative specification. DNG addresses the need for a common, openly documented raw format&#8211;a solution much requested by customers. So, I wanted to pull together some recent good news on this front: Adobe has posted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[30],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10975"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10975\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}