2/1/2024 0 Comments .dng photo reader![]() Use an X-rite color chart to build a proper color profile in Capture Oneĭe-fringe and de-chrom.abb. Also there is no light at the end of this tunnel! I am an expert in image and video file formats and all I can say about those three formats is – the more time you invest researching and converting them and the more technical details you understand – the more frustrated you will become. I’ll keep you posted if/when it happens.ĭNG sucks. One of the folks who wrote a comment made a prediction that I’d be converting to DNG before long and I think that’s a good bet. So what gives? Why won’t you start using DNG?Ī. Any reasons not to use it don’t really seem to apply to you. If you use it and you’re happy, then go for it □ Please don’t turn this into a Capture NX2 debate in the comments. Things like D-lighting and picture controls and things like that are all in Lightroom and Photoshop in some way, shape or form. How many programs do you really need to edit your photos? You’re reading this blog which probably means you’re a Lightroom user. I’m not sure this is a good reason not to use DNG though. So if DNG became an industry standard, it would live on even if the company that created did not.Ī. If there’s one standard that the raw files have to follow (say, DNG) then everyone’s life becomes easier. So by having a standard, everyone’s life is better. Every single company that they dealt with would have to adapt and change their software to account for the change. Imagine if one company changed their documents. Without a common document exchanging standard of some sort, they’d face chaos. Lots of other industries use standards (Pharmaceuticals for example). If this happened they’d probably lose significant control over what happens with the format. Don’t quote me on this, but I’m pretty sure that Adobe would submit the DNG format to become an industry standard. All the more reason why DNG should become an industry standard. My understanding is that Adobe is the company that maintains DNG: What if they are no longer around?Ī. I understand the “Convert to DNG because you never know what happens 50 year from now” argument, but somehow don’t buy it. Just like raw files, you either need to turn this option on or manually save changes in the Photo menu (Cmd/Ctrl – S). So if you’re editing DNG files in Lightroom don’t be fooled into thinking that your changes are being saved automatically. Its in the Catalog Settings (Lightroom menu on Mac, and Edit menu on PC). The easy answer is yes, there is a setting that will let you write your changes automatically to the file. You still manually need to go to the Photo menu to save the settings.” Isn’t there a setting in Lightroom to automatically save your changes?Ī. Matt, you wrote “And Lightroom doesn’t automatically update the DNG file if you make changes. Tom also wrote about this on his blog a while back. Just look through the comments from the original post and do a search for Tom’s last name and you’ll find it. He wrote a pretty detailed response to each of my reasons that’s worth reading. Yep, but he’s also the DNG product manager. ![]() Was that Tom Hogarty I saw commenting? Isn’t he the Lightroom product manager for Adobe?Ī. More on this at the end of this article though. ![]() Even though my post talked about some reasons people don’t use DNG and I admitted that I don’t convert to DNG, doesn’t mean I’m not a fan of it. Based on my experience at workshops and seminars, that’s more pro-DNG than what I’ve been used to. I didn’t go through and count each one but it felt like a 40/60 split (DNG/Not DNG). I wanted to post a follow up to give some more thoughts and answer a few questions?įor starters, I have to say there were more DNGers than I thought. First off, thanks for all of the conversation in the comments on the DNG article the other day.
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