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Title: Camera Makers Defend Proprietary RAW Formats Despite Open Standard
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Link: https://it.slashdot.org/story/25/04/04/144222...

Camera manufacturers continue to use different proprietary RAW file formats
despite the 20-year existence of Adobe's open-source DNG (Digital Negative)
format, creating ongoing compatibility challenges for photographers and
software developers. Major manufacturers including Sony, Canon, and Panasonic
defended their proprietary formats as necessary for maintaining control over
image processing. Sony's product team told The Verge their ARW format allows
them "to maximize performance based on device characteristics such as the
image sensor and image processing engine." Canon similarly claims proprietary
formats enable "optimum processing during image development." The Verge
argues that this fragmentation forces editing software to specifically
support each manufacturer's format and every new camera model -- creating
delays for early adopters when new cameras launch. Each new device requires
"measuring sensor characteristics such as color and noise," said Adobe's Eric
Chan. For what it's worth, smaller manufacturers like Ricoh, Leica, and Sigma
have adopted DNG, which streamlines workflow by containing metadata directly
within a single file rather than requiring separate XMP sidecar files.

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