Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/11/05

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Subject: [Leica] Re:M8 DNG vs DMR DNG
From: walt at waltjohnson.com (Walt Johnson)
Date: Sun Nov 5 16:02:55 2006
References: <110520062335.6971.454E7535000D18CB00001B3B219791280203010CD2079C080C03BF970A9D9F9A0B9D09@mchsi.com>

Didn't Leica monopolize the rangefinder market for years? Actually, it 
seems as if they still do? :-)

grduprey@mchsi.com wrote:

>Jayanand,
>
>Adobe pretty much already owns the Photo and Graphics market, just like 
>Microsoft pretty much owns the personnal computer market.  Sure there are 
>other players, but they are small change by comparison.
>
>gene
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>-------------- Original message from Jayanand Govindaraj 
><jgovindaraj@eth.net>: -------------- 
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>>Hoppy, 
>>Handing over something to Adobe is more dangerous than Nikon/Canon 
>>IMHO....That is handing the keys to digital to as close a monopoly that 
>>you can get. 
>>Cheers 
>>Jayanand 
>>
>>G Hopkinson wrote: 
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>>>Mehrdad, do you see this as a problem? Isn't the whole idea to have an 
>>>open 
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>>standard that any camera maker can use? With none of the 
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>>>information encrypted or limited to a proprietary standard? Leica bundles 
>>>a 
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>>free program to read the files with the M8, as you know. 
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>>>If another camera maker chose to use the format they could do the same. 
>>>For 
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>>users of Photoshop, of course, you can install a 
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>>>converter as a free plug in. 
>>>Cheers 
>>>Hoppy 
>>>
>>>-----Original Message----- 
>>>From: lug-bounces+hoppyman=bigpond.net.au@leica-users.org 
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>>[mailto:lug-bounces+hoppyman=bigpond.net.au@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of 
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>>>mehrdad 
>>>Sent: Friday, 3 November 2006 13:14 
>>>To: Leica Users Group 
>>>Subject: Re: [Leica] Re:M8 DNG vs DMR DNG 
>>>
>>>the only and the biggest problem with dng is adobe. you have touse 
>>>thier tool to convert them. 
>>>
>>>On 11/2/06, Christopher Williams wrote: 
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>>>>Well, I know nothing about DNG but a photographer I know is shooting the 
>>>>D2x 
>>>>in NEF/RAW then converting to DNG and he says the extra storage space is 
>>>>great. 
>>>>
>>>>Chris 
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>----- Original Message ----- 
>>>>From: "Eric Korenman" 
>>>>Subject: Re: [Leica] M8 DNG vs DMR DNG 
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>>>>>would be nice if I could compress the DNGs post-camera in computer to 
>>>>>save 
>>>>>space. 
>>>>>Anybody know how to do that? 
>>>>>
>>>>>Eric 
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>>>>>>David Young, 
>>>>>>Logan Lake, CANADA 
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Replies: Reply from firkin at ncable.net.au (Alastair Firkin) ([Leica] Re:M8 DNG vs DMR DNG)
In reply to: Message from grduprey at mchsi.com (grduprey@mchsi.com) ([Leica] Re:M8 DNG vs DMR DNG)