Adobe Systems on Monday unveiled a digital photo format that it hopes will become an industry standard, plus a tool designed to convert photos to that format from the many that are used today.
With the company’s new Digital Negative specification and converter tool, users can translate and store raw files, which contain images prior to any in-camera processing, from more than 65 types of cameras. This process is different from storing the images as JPEGs or TIFFs, which are altered from an image’s raw file. One concern about the myriad raw formats currently in use is that they’re tied to specific camera models, creating a risk that over time, the formats used to archive some photos may not be supported, Adobe said. The Digital Negative, or DNG, format can be used in digital cameras, printers and software products for free, without legal restrictions.
Source: ZDNet
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