Φώτης Ζάγορας schrieb am 14.11.18 um 22:19:
Every book I read until now says, do not stay in camera raw file.
Convert it to DNG to avoid facing compatibility problems.
Those books mainly support Adobe Software - don't they? And thus they
clearly suggest to use a file format originally invented by Adobe ...
In fact I open them with lightroom (the program that converted them to
DNG), with Rawtherapee and with Vuescan without any problem. Only with
darktable I have until now this implication.... What can I say ?
Any way thank you for your advice!
Problem is that some of the RAW formats of some Camera manufacturers
contain proprietary metadata that possibly cannot be converted
correctly. So you have to store the original files anyways to be sure to
have them if you need them (e. g. to convert them later again if the
converter has approved to support those RAWs better - so I for me don't
care about converting (b. t. w. this can be done later if there will be
a time when there is no software around that will read my RAW files.
Then I can use the last computer with the last version of any converter
before that age to batch convert my archive ...).
Bruce Williams schrieb am 14.11.18 um 21:53:
It doesn't affect me, but just out of interest, is it a case of NO
.dng files are supported, or just .dng files created from that
particular camera type?
The darktable devs say that DNG directly from Camera are fine (like
Pentax e. g., there is a setting within the camera where you can select
between DNG or PEF), but NOT DNG that is converted by some software
outside the camera.
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regards
Bernhard
https://www.bilddateien.de
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