A long time coming -- DNG for all.
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In March 2004, Australian photographer Robert Edwards asked a simple but meaningful question on Rob Galbraith’s now-defunct photography forums: “Could Adobe make a RAW format?” The answer was very much “yes,” and Adobe announced the DNG format, or Digital Negative, later that same year. Now, more than two decades later, DNG is now the official standard under the International Organization for Standardization (ISO).
As Edwards explains, this is the result of a quarter-century of work by countless people. It’s also deceptively important work with significant implications for the future of digital photography.
Nearly all cameras, and certainly all of the ones
PetaPixel readers care about, capture RAW photos. In most cases, the specific format varies by brand, and sometimes a camera has multiple different RAW file formats with different compression mechanisms. For example, Sony Alpha cameras capture .ARW RAW photos, while Nikon cameras shoot .NEF, Canon’s capture .CR2, Fujifilm has .RAF, and so on. Some cameras capture .DNG RAW files, like Leica, Ricoh, and Sigma cameras.
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