[Commons-l] Allow Digital Negative (DNG) RAW format on Commons? (and increase filesize limit)

Oldak Quill oldakquill at gmail.com
Wed Nov 21 20:49:03 UTC 2007


On 21/11/2007, Jastrow <jastrow at 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.

Sorry, I wasn't talking about file formats - purely the benefits of
high resolution.

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Oldak Quill (oldakquill at gmail.com)


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