RAW formats can have higher dynamic range. One camera I have has 16
bits of color. CaptureOne, for instance, doesn't manage RAW in RGB
space. It keeps the B&W and color data in different data spaces until
it "prints" it into jpg. It's feasible that you might have two
objects in two different lighting conditions in the same photo - for
instance, a person in a shadow in the foreground and a building in
the background. With the RAW you could crop, extract and correctly
expose both objects. If you rendered into jpg you'd lose a lot of the
information when you fixed the exposure.
I guess the question is how much "archival" of this sort of raw data
you want in the commons. You could always just ask the photographer
to do the processing for the various versions of the images.
On Nov 22, 2007, at 9:00 AM, Brianna Laugher wrote:
On 22/11/2007, Jastrow <jastrow(a)pip-pip.org>
wrote:
Le 11/21/07 8:26 PM, Oldak Quill a écrit :
A user may want to crop an image containing multiple objects down to
just one object. A high resolution image of a building could be
cropped down to just show a distinctive window to go in a Wikipedia
article about that style of window (no other free alternative?). If
the image is high resolution, the cropped image showing just the
window would still be good enough quality to use in the article.
I still don't see how allowing DNG will bring us higher resolution
pictures. High-resolution, 300dpi JPEG files do exist. Photo
magazines
usually accept TIFF and JPEG files.
As someone else said, providing the RAW format allows a reuser to
optimise it for various print qualities, rather than optimising for
screen (and probably smaller file size at that).
And I didn't make that quote up. :) Whether or not there is any
discernible difference, (at least some) publishers feel there is. I'm
inclined to trust them on that point rather than insist that JPG ought
to be good enough.
cheers,
Brianna
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