02-07-2017, 07:47 PM
Adobe DNG is a pretty blown up RAW format - I'm not surprised it is not used by more manufacturers (Leica and Pentax come in mind).
Last Iridient update brought the possibility to open Fuji X-T2 compressed RAW which apparently is a secret equation this side of the galaxy. Then the developer shot out a DNG converter. I just don't see the point in converting 21 MB RAW files into 70 MB with tons of overhead. Lossless conversion is no rocket science, but a lot of the big boys fail entirely with it. I actually don't see the benefit of saving a small RAW as big DNG? Then I could export it as 16 Bit Tiff as well.
Best of it: DNG ≠DNG! Some apps do save DNG (like VueScan to get RAW data from a scanner). Trying to open these in several other apps, be it RAW converter or PS, nothing senseful happened. But then, that was 6 years ago.
I'm just highly sceptical against another proprietary Adobe crap format and later they let it down like SVG.
Last Iridient update brought the possibility to open Fuji X-T2 compressed RAW which apparently is a secret equation this side of the galaxy. Then the developer shot out a DNG converter. I just don't see the point in converting 21 MB RAW files into 70 MB with tons of overhead. Lossless conversion is no rocket science, but a lot of the big boys fail entirely with it. I actually don't see the benefit of saving a small RAW as big DNG? Then I could export it as 16 Bit Tiff as well.
Best of it: DNG ≠DNG! Some apps do save DNG (like VueScan to get RAW data from a scanner). Trying to open these in several other apps, be it RAW converter or PS, nothing senseful happened. But then, that was 6 years ago.
I'm just highly sceptical against another proprietary Adobe crap format and later they let it down like SVG.