Adobe Releasing New Photo Format

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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Why?

[beh]

Did anyone actually see a good reason for the creation of this particular format?

Does this format offer anything that couldn't be done with PNG?

I see a point of being able to store a picture before the camera's internal software starts working on it ("enhancing" it). But why a separate format? If you wanted to capture additional information for the camera, why not just add something like ID3 tags to an existing format like PNG to add this data?

What does the "G" stand for?

[b1t r0t]

Okay, so the D and N stand for "Digital Negative". What does the G stand for?

In JPEG and MPEG, the EG means "Experts Group", though the E is usually dropped because of Microsoft's 8.3 legacy of CP/M file names.