Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/12/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Whyconvert to DNG? Keep the RAW files and a couple of copies of the converter software of choice backed up in removable hard drives.. I presume that Nikon and Canon will at least survive as long as Adobe - I also trust them far more than I trust Adobe in all this. Cheers Jayanand On Dec 8, 2007 10:42 PM, Daniel Ridings <dlridings@gmail.com> wrote: > Not that I am a specialist on this, but you'd not be going wrong if > you used Lightroom to off-load your cards, place your files in a > library and convert the RAW to DNG in the process. > > Figure how much disk space you will never need and buy two at that > size. Work with external disks. Computers come and go and it is a pain > if you have your data stored on in internal disk. They're good for > booting and storing applications, but they are less than ideal for > storing your data. > > Daniel > > On Dec 8, 2007 5:35 PM, Aram Langhans <leicar@q.com> wrote: > > I have started to shoot in RAW mode and I am wondering what to do as far > as > > archiving my "negatives". Since there are so many different flavors of > RAW, > > what should be done to insure they can be read again in say 5 years? > What > > should they be converted to yet not loose the ability to work on them in > the > > way a RAW file does? > > > > Aram > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >