DNG - Digital Negative format

On my blog

• My blog posts for "DNG"

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On this website

I now rarely write here about DNG, because of "diminishing returns".
If I do publish additional significant information, I will announce it on my blog.

The future health of high-end digital photography needs a well-engineered common raw file format. The sooner we have one, the better for raw shooters everywhere, and Adobe's Digital Negative format is the only contender. It is opening up raw shooting to more people, more products, and more opportunities, and making it easier for photographers and users of photographs to build more valuable and comprehensive workflows.

Here is an introduction, which is also another index to the rest of the pages below:

• DNG articles and links

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Helping you make informed decisions

• Benefits of DNG     ("what's in it for me?")
• Products that support DNG in some way     (cameras, raw converters, viewers, organisers, ingesters, etc)
  • Adobe products that support DNG
  • Cameras that write DNG
• Products supporting XMP within DNG     (eXtended Metadata Platform)
• Products without explicit DNG support     (yet!)
• Endorsements for DNG     (indications of "respectability")
• Using DNG safely     (including ways of being confident about it)
• Using Photoshop CS, CS2, or CS3 for new cameras     (how to use "the DNG route")

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Information and explanations

• Camera details embedded in DNG     (a powerful but little understood aspect of DNG)
• Support via DNG but not native raws     (where cameras can only be handled via DNG)
• DNG and camera innovation     (no, DNG doesn't inhibit innovation!)
• DNG and variety     (how DNG caters for variety in sensors and raw converters, etc)
• Linear DNG     (a little-known but powerful variant)
• DNG specification     (clarifying a few aspects of the DNG specifications)

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Miscellaneous pages

• A brief history of DNG     (this page maintains a running history of DNG)
• The origins of these pages     (why am I publishing here?)
• Raw topics     (discussion of a few topics concerning raw shooting)
• Speculations about DNG     (what may happen in future?)
• DNG versus HD Photo / JPEG XR     (relationship with another image file format)
• Adobe products that support DNG     (keeping a more important page smaller)
• Cameras that write DNG     (a reformatted extract from another page)

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OpenRAW - Rest In Peace!

• The tragedy of OpenRAW     (life and death of OpenRAW)
• OpenRAW and DNG     (attitudes towards DNG)
• Dialogue with Juergen Specht     (OpenRAW's anti-DNG proponent)
• Commentary on "DNG is not the answer"     (about an article from Stuart Nixon)
• Commentary on "RAW format, the captive photo"     (interviews with Dave Coffin and Juergen Specht)

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Historical articles

• DNG support, end-February & end-April 2005     (from Pierre-Etienne Courtejoie)
• DNG support, to end-September 2005     (by the end of the 1st year)
• DNG support, to end-September 2006     (by the end of the 2nd year)
• DNG support, to end-September 2007     (by the end of the 3rd year)
• DNG support, to end-September 2008     (by the end of the 4th year)
• DNG support, to end-September 2009     (by the end of the 5th year)
• DNG support, to end-September 2010     (by the end of the 6th year)
• DNG support, to end-December 2010     (during the 7th year)
• Reports about completeness & bugs     (including "historical" reports not included elsewhere)