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

[Jastrow]

Le 11/22/07 1:00 AM, Brianna Laugher a écrit :
> 
> 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).

This is a feature of the RAW format. As far as I know, it doesn't have 
anything to do with high resolution.

> 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.

Brianna, apparently your contact mentioned DNG, but the excerpt you 
quoted only mentions "higher resolution files". 300dpi JPEG files are 
not "just good enough". They're high resolution files. Now, if we want 
to follow the standard of the printing industry, the priority would be 
to allow TIFF files.

I agree adding DNG to our list of supported file types would be a good 
thing but I seriously doubt that it will bring Commons more high 
resolution files. It would be more useful, I think, to educate our users 
not to downsample, and so on.

This thread reminds me of our discussion about colour management and how 
users were to be encouraged to shoot RAW and use a colour chart. It was 
a good idea, of course, but it seemed a bit premature when the vast 
majority of our users never pay attention to white balance or don't even 
know what it is.

Jastrow