Re: DNG: How is it doing in the marketplace?

Paul Rubin wrote:
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> DNG is a raw format, PNG (portable network graphic) is sort of a
> higher-capability GIFF replacement. PNG is doing just fine as a
> network graphic format. I don't know of anyone using it as a camera
> archive format and it was never intended for that.

I save all my most important images in PNG. It does as well as or better
than standard lossless compression algorithms. OK, what I save don't
happen to be camera images (I use JPEG for that), but they are full tone
images (they happen to be greyscale). To imply that PNG is only for
graphics would be misleading - it's equally good for greyscale or colour
images.

David


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