> Unfortunately for us Pentax folk, openraw.org seems to be mostly
> agenda-driven, with the agenda being "Why DNG is the wrong answer".
>
> One of the loudest voices in support of openraw is also completely
> opposed to a commercial organisation (viz. Adobe) having control
> of the spec., and seems only too willing to believe the wildest
> conspiracy theories about how Adobe might abuse this control.
>
> We discussed this survey back when it was first publicised, and
> quite a few people filled out the questionnaire. But it was very
> clear to most of us that it wasn't an unbiased survey, but was
> designed to elicit answers that supported the preconcieved agenda.
>
Not unbiased, maybe. It does bring up a valueable point
exemplified by the fact that I cannot convert my RAW photos to DNG's at
this point. I do not own any Microsoft products (nor do I plan to), and
my Mac is about 12 years old. I run linux exclusively and while the RAW
conversion utilities support reading DNG's, I cannot convert my current
PEF's to DNG.
I've seen enough proprietary formats and proprietary utilities
come and go to have a healthy amount of hesitation to using them for
permanent archival.
-Cory
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* Cory Papenfuss, Ph.D., PPSEL-IA *
* Electrical Engineering *
* Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University *
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