![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() If (when) other camera manufacturers adopt a universal format in the future it’s highly likely it will be the DNG. Some camera manufacturers like Leica and Hasselblad already capture in the DNG format. There are also no license restrictions so camera manufacturers could use DNG as their default RAW format instead of their proprietary format. Many different software developers support the DNG format (Apple Aperture for example). It’s not limited to Adobe software like Lightroom and Photoshop. Since the DNG format (.dng) is open source anyone can write software to read or write the format. It’s hard to imagine not being able to open Canon or Nikon files today, but ten or twenty years from now who knows where those companies could be! These proprietary formats might be difficult to read in the distant future since the format hasn’t been openly documented and support from the manufacturer may not always be there. If you shoot Canon you might have noticed your RAW files end with. One of the problems in photography right now is that the vast majority of camera manufacturers have their own proprietary RAW formats. You might want to consider converting your RAW files to the DNG format as it offers some serious benefits! The Benefits Of DNG Future Compatibility The DNG is an open source RAW file format that was developed by Adobe and released in 2004. Now, if you shoot in the RAW file format (and you should be – here’s why you should shoot in RAW) you may or may not have heard of the Digital Negative ( DNG) format. Read on to learn more about this subject, and how you can prevent that from happening to you! If you’re not planning right, you might end up with an archive of images that you can’t even open. But as a digital shooter you need to think ahead to the future, and figure out how you can protect your images from the changing times! It’s a fun and exciting time, with new gadgets coming out all the time. And any Adobe Camera RAW (ACR) updates you do to CS2 will be too old to understand the RX100 RAW files.The world of digital photography changes FAST. ![]() CR2 files by using the DNG Converter and opening the resulting DNG files directly in Photoshop CS (1). I'm not sure what plugin you were installing, as a plugin is not required to open a DNG file. Personally, I'd go for the very latest version that runs on Snow Leopard, which is 8.3. In the case of the RX100, that means you have to have DNG converter 7.2 or later (ACR and DNG typically share version numbers). But you need a version of the DNG converter that can grok your camera's RAW output. Using DNG is the end run around having to upgrade Photoshop. So, for the RX100, to use the RAW files directly, you need at least CS6 and ACR 7.2. And since RAW is not a file format or a standard, and changes with each camera model, and Adobe has no time-travel capability, this means a version of ACR that came out after your camera was released and whatever version of Photoshop was current at the time, as Adobe only makes the latest version of ACR compatible with the latest version of Photoshop. :) To get Photoshop/ACR to open a RAW file directly, it must be a new enough version that groks the RAW of the camera model. Well, you've certainly run into "The Photoshop Tax" on new cameras. ![]()
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