> Basic question: Why do you convert to DNG?
Agreed. Why change from one proprietary format to another?
One only has to look to the news of this past week of Adobe abandoning
Aperture to realize that trusting in any company to keep your data
viable is dangerous. For the most part, every general purpose
converter will open a camera raw file of any brand and model. Even
ACR. The only time DNG is important is if you are dealing with a brand
new camera that ACR doesn't convert yet, but even at that, you're
talking about early-adopter issues, not general rules.
Other than Adobe, can you name any other converter that supports DNG
but not the original files? Who else does conversions to DNG? DNG is
absolutely as proprietary as they come and has less support than just
about any other format.
I have no issues with Leica and others that use DNG as native format,
but that's a different story.
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