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

[Delphine Ménard]

On Nov 21, 2007 6:03 PM, Artur Fijałkowski <wiki.warx at gmail.com> wrote:
> We can accept 1GB RAW files and 20 GB JPEG files, but this really
> doesn't change much in pictures.
>
> Many-many contributors don't see why they should upload 10 MPIX photo,
> when they can downsample it before uploading to 0.5 MPIX. 'This is
> enough resolution for web publishing, isn't it?'  they say.

How many people actually use any kind of RAW format on their digital
camera should be the first question we ask. My take is that very few
actually do.

Well, I don't :-)

> So first step should be teaching users and then giving them 'most
> sophisticated file format possible (TM)' ;)


Agreed.

Delphine
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