Comments on: RAW vs DNG https://www.slickpic.com/blog/raw-vs-dng/ Sharpen Your Photography Skills, Knowledge and Passion Tue, 13 Jun 2017 20:28:17 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.3.16 By: Susan https://www.slickpic.com/blog/raw-vs-dng/#comment-2089 Tue, 13 Jun 2017 20:28:17 +0000 https://www.slickpic.com/blog/?p=12561#comment-2089 Very informative! I learned here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Negative about .dng files and how to edit them but I wanted to learn more. I think I just came to the right place. Thank you very much for sharing , it is very helpful

]]> By: Scott Rosenthal https://www.slickpic.com/blog/raw-vs-dng/#comment-1288 Tue, 21 Feb 2017 13:15:25 +0000 https://www.slickpic.com/blog/?p=12561#comment-1288 I’d like to clear up some confusion:

“there is no way to convert a DNG file back to the original RAW file, even if you embed the RAW file into your DNG.”

If you embed the original in the DNG, one can extract the original, unaltered RAW file using, for example, Adobe DNG Converter (it also has an extract function). I just ran a test on 5 *.CR2 files converted to DNG with embedded originals and then extracted them. The hash values of the extracted files were identical with the original files, showing that nothing changed.

Keeping a file as an original manufacturer RAW file is no guarantee that the manufacturer will continue providing the RAW processing tools. And, if you are using third-party tools for processing RAW files with XMP sidecar files, you still have the same issue that the RAW files formats are proprietary!

I agree that DNG files do have some drawbacks (especially the whole maintaining backup copies). I just wanted to make sure that someone deciding between DNG and RAW have more of the facts.

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