On Nov 21, 2007 11:55 PM, Brianna Laugher brianna.laugher@gmail.com wrote:
- Format "patent license":
http://www.adobe.com/products/dng/license.html Is this acceptable?
It seems to allow essentially unlimited use of the file format, on the condition that you don't try to claim a patent over the format, so it seems fine to me.
DNG would certainly be vastly preferable to any of the other RAW formats; essentially each camera manufacturer (or more specifically, each image sensor manufacturer) has their own RAW format, and the formats are all incompatible with each other.
If we do this, are we likely to require an increase in the maximum filesize limit? (currently 20mb)
Probably. My sister's camera supports DNG natively, and the DNG files it outputs are something like 30MB-40MB for a 10 megapixel image, I think.
So although our works are usually sufficient for web use, it seems clear that we cannot present ourselves as a serious kind of archivist, culture-recording project, without introducing a RAW format and encouraging people to use it.
The important thing about having a RAW format is that people can process it again to produce an image that suits their conditions, which is particularly advantageous for print applications.