Forum Übersicht - DNG und OpenRaw - zwei Ansätze ohne Zukunft?

Hallo,

Alex Tutubalin (LibRaw, LexaSoftware) hat einen lesenswerten Artikel über die stetig wachsenden Probleme geschrieben, die durch die Speicherung von Bilddateien in herstellerspezifischen, nicht offengelegten Raw-Formaten aufgeworfen werden, und erklärt, warum seiner Meinung nach bisher weder das DNG-Format (jedenfalls nicht in der jetzigen Form unter Adobes Kontrolle) noch die OpenRaw-Initiative einen Ausweg aus der Problematik für die Zukunft bieten:

http://www.libraw.org/articles/2-ways-to-nowhere.html
ZITATTwo Paths Leading Nowhere

Why are photographers compelled to suffer the discord of RAW formats?!

During the last 10 to 15 years, digital photography forced the film out of nearly all the domains. End users purchased hundreds of millions of digital cameras; and that is not including the cameras sold integrated with cellular phones. Such a huge industry can't exist without standards and such standards appear to exist. They cover the storage media (various flash cards), and image format which happens to be JPEG. Currently JPEG is the most widely used image format and its image quality and size satisfy the overwhelming majority of users.

However it is not always what professionals want. By professionals we do not mean just professional photographers. The list includes designers, pre-press staff, archivists, photo banks and many others. It often happens that JPEG format is also deemed less than appropriate by advanced amateurs. That is why nearly all digital cameras that are positioned by manufacturers as professional or semi-professionals models (as well as all current dSLR cameras) suggest an alternative format, the so-called RAW. For a casual onlooker it may appear that RAW is also some kind of a standard format that delivers better quality – quality for pros.

This small article is to show that the matter is much more complicated. At the current stage the situation with RAW format is not just bad but really dreadful and continues to spiral downwards rapidly. This affects mostly professionals while less demanding amateurs simply enjoy the progress of digital.[/quote]

Viele Grüße,

Matthias