There are a LOT of people who argue RAW vs JPG. I just delve into the JPG, and start spotting all the artefacts.) Additionally, if you edit and you have a quality setting, its likely that the program will override what quality setting exists, and replaces it with own, degragating the image. JPG is fine for a short term snap solution (and 90% of people would be happy with JPG's. ![]() I keep mine all in Canon RAW (CRW/CR2), but its on my list of things to do when I get my backup solution to convert to DNG.įile sizes are of issue, and you should make sure 1) you have capacity to deal with it and 2) make sure you can back it up safely. Therefore DNG offers a way to prevent digital loss of files. If we extend that line of thought along, theoretically, Canon or Nikon could (note emphasises on could) drop support for their older RAW formats, leaving users in the lurch. In essence, digital extinction without people realising it. People were left high and dry with no further support for their file format. Part of the reason of DNG comes about from Contax's withdrawal from the Digital Market place. With DNG although it is lead by Adobe (Lecia adopted in camera for the M8), it is an open format that is documented - (unlike Canon RAW, Nikon NEF, etc. Its all down to lossiness, compression and vendor lock in. I now also use Nikon Capture NX instead of ACR, and convert to TIFF if I am going to do further processing in Photoshop (which is a rarer occurence for me these days, now that I am using Caputure NX - as predicted by another poster) or JPEG when outputting to the web or submitting it to a print processor. Thus, I only make a backup copy of the same NEF file when I post-process and have since deleted all my DNG backups. I've since decided that NEF isn't going to go anywhere, and if it does, I'll deal with it then (plus I was eating a lot of hard-disk space with the multiple redundant copies). This was obviously a while ago, and we certainly know more about the future of proprietary raw file formats that we did then. The motivation behind this was the thought (then) that DNG may one day become the industry standard (like Adobe did with PDF) and that having an archive copy in DNG from the get-go would be a nice thing to have. When I first started working with raw and ACR, my first workflow step was to batch convert my NEF to DNG and have a "negative" in each format. Think of that process as going from a print to negative. And no, you will not magically gain quality by shooting JPEG and then converting to DNG. Whether to shoot raw or jpeg is a whole 'nother argument, but in summary, I'd say if you have the ability to shoot raw, do it. GIF and other formats like it are reserved for low-res web based images, etc.Ĭan you share the reason for the Kelby recommendation? As pointed out before, DNG is simply another raw format, so in theory there aren't any advantages, image-quality wise, to use up more disk space to convert your raw file to DNG. Ĭhoose TIFF as the most loss-less type to take to a professional printer for the highest quality professional prints. Once you are done working on the image in Photoshop/CS you then have to choose what file type you want to save your altered imageto be saved/exported in. For some people the adjustments in the latest versions of their camera's RAW converters are enough without Photoshp/CS and they will be done with the image.įor those of us who do use Photoshop/CS, once the conversion is done the image will be opened into Adobe PS/CS as an Adobe PSD file. ![]() Understand though that what we are talking about here is the transitional RAW conversion where you can change exposure, white balance, etc. ![]() The latest version of Adobe Camera RAW though is pretty good. Up until the most recent update for Adobe Camera RAW, Nikon's RAW converter gave higher quality results with more features/options. If you then install another RAW program such as Nikon Capture or Canon's RAW opener, it will replace Adobe Camera RAW as the default program. ![]() Adobe has also made Camera RAW capable of recognizing and opening RAW formats from pretty much everyone else Nikon, Canon, Olympus, Pentax, Fuji, etc. When you install Photoshop, Adobe Camera Raw will be the default RAW converter/opener. Many brands that do not have their own proprietary RAW converter software just use Adobe Camera RAW. DNG is just Adobe's own proprietary RAW file type which works very smoothly if you are using Adobe’s proprietary RAW converter, Adobe Camera RAW.
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