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Adobe Releasing New Photo Format

Posted by Hemos on from the the-raw-images dept.

salmonz writes "Toronto Star just posted a story that Adobe is releasing a new digital picture format; the Digital Negative Specification,or DNG. " Supposed to be use in raw photo formats; without the lossyness of JPEG.

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  1. Me too. by eddy · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Yeah, this sounds like a definite case of "Not Invented Here", with a cynical touch of "We can't control that" and "We can't license that".

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    Belief is the currency of delusion.
  2. I don't like it for the following reasons: by erroneus · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Reason #1: It's called "DNG" and all but the most religious/technical will be calling it "DuNG" in a short while.

    Reason #2: What does "Lossy" mean? Let's face it -- JPG can be saved in a virtually lossless format at any time -- it's just a setting right? Futhermore, the moment the camera is designed, it's "lossy" since it has to be crunched down into an image of fixed color depth and fixed image size and pixelized. From that moment on, immeasurable amounts of detail is lost forever from the resulting image. So then it becomes an issue of "what is acceptable loss" which to me should be a tweakable adjustment in the way JPG is encoded to the media. Uncompressed images are just a waste of space!