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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. What's wrong with PNG? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    The Star, being a mainstream rag, lacks any details as to why we need another format instead of existing ones. Anyone?

    1. Re:What's wrong with PNG? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Wow. A question concerning the DNG image format, and modded offtopic. Way to go, mods.

      Perhaps you were looking for "redundant".

  2. Re:I can't remember... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Can't speak for others, but I certainly do. I wish they'd open their damned acroread software. Why? They make money on Acrobat producer, not reader. We (BSD users) would gain a native reader (no, kpdf, gv, and xpdf don't cut it). I'm not asking them to open Photoshop.

    To stay on topic, I have my doubts that this will ever make it to digital cameras and software other than Adobe's. Why? We already have jpeg for lossy storage and tiff and png for lossless, both of them widely supported by existing software. This new format doesn't add anything that the RAW format cameras use has.

    Turbo Smorgreff

  3. Re:Why? by Vincent+Galliard · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    And this gets modded "Insightful"? At least it only got a two. Thanks for the obligatory knee-jerk reaction.

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    Vincent Galliard, Precinct 9 -- "Minding the gap since 1996"
  4. Re:Obligatory Simpsons Ref... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    It's not funny. It hasn't been for a while. How about some Soviet Russia or All Your Base posts while you're at it?

  5. Re:Yep. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Moderation -1
    60% Overrated
    40% Insightful

    The magic of Slashdot.

  6. Re:If I see one more "what's wrong with PNG" post. by FooBarWidget · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Yeah, right. So blame everything on "the open source zealots" huh? So everybody who doesn't know why PNG is technically unsuitable for this, is automatically an "open source zealot"? It's exactly because of people like you, why the word "zealot" has completely lost its meaning. You people abuse the word "zealot", along with "open source", to flame down everybody, including those who are not associated to open source.

  7. Re:I can't remember... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Christ, will somebody with mod points be merciful and most this crap down? Doesn't anyone get tired of this shit?

  8. Re:Yep. by mbbac · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Adobe invented PostScript. Are you saying that they shouldn't have also invented PDF to replace it? I'm glad they did.

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    mbbac