Image Preservation Through Open Documentation

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Image Preservation Through Open Documentation

Posted by Hemos on Monday April 25, 2005 @05:35AM from the the-right-step-to-take dept.

OpenRAW Group writes "The OpenRAW Working Group launched a website today at http://www.OpenRAW.org designed to solve issues crucial to the future of photography. Digital technology is revolutionizing the photography industry, and an emerging part of that technology is the set of RAW camera file formats. Most professional photographers prefer using RAW image capture because it offers the highest quality and the greatest creative control. The grass roots OpenRAW group arose out of photographers' frustration with camera manufacturers' refusal to openly document their proprietary RAW file formats. That lack of file format information inhibits innovation, limits image processing choices, and endangers the long-term accessibility of millions of photographs. The goal of the new website is to obtain complete documentation by manufacturers of their RAW file formats."

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I have the solution... by LegendOfLink · 2005-04-25 05:36 · Score: 4, Funny

...a camera that will etch the image into a chunk of granite!

Let's see somebody try to encrypt stone, baby!

*off to the USPTO

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1. Re:I have the solution... by pavon · 2005-04-25 05:45 · Score: 5, Funny
  Patent encryption method in which, you
  
  Cut stone into million pieces.
  
  For each piece pick a randomly assigned unique number between 1 and a million.
  
  Carve number on back of piece.
  
  Record order of numbers on seperate rock (key).
  
  Start rock etching service.
  
  Profit.
OpenRAW? by Anonymous Coward · 2005-04-25 05:41 · Score: 5, Funny

Somehow I'm feeling a little uneasy about clicking on a link which points to www.openraw.org.
What's the matter... by chill · 2005-04-25 05:43 · Score: 3, Funny

...was the domain "nikonsucks.com" already taken?

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Re:Shooting RAW is not so great anyway by Anonymous Coward · 2005-04-25 05:51 · Score: 1, Funny

HOLY SHIT! This post BLOWS A FUCKING WHEEL off RAW's rickety charnel wagon. I'm going to read it again, to see if it has the same impact the second time around...FUCKING HELL IT DOES. How can RAW honestly continue after these earth shattering revelations?

Stop all the clocks, and STOP THE DOG barking with its juicy bone. RAW's shiny new Pointiac has just been shown to be a tottering house of cards - cards with DYNAMITE attached, and Mike Smith has just pressed the detonator marked "Double Danger"!

This post is a brilliant swipe at those who think they're in the know, but really aren't. It destroys them, dissects them like a master scientist dissecting some kids KIDNEY against their parents wishes, rips apart their ego driven pursuit of superiority. I love the tone - it logically, coherently KICKS ASS in the most awesomely devastating way possible. How come there are no news stories about this post? How come this is not on all the news wires or telegraphed to everyone? It deserves a front page on the paper all to itself.

Is there some conspiracy to try and silence this lone voice of terrible reason? I think so, and it is clear what is to be done. Post this again and again so we can for a moment be transported back to the beautifully clear and precisely logical world of super-coherence that this post conjures up every time ......YES... I read it. It's fantastical! Christ I love this post.
RAW by Anonymous Coward · 2005-04-25 06:03 · Score: 2, Funny

RAW IS WAR!
Batista is a false champion!
Websense says OpenRAW is porn by Valleye · 2005-04-25 06:28 · Score: 3, Funny

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