Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/08/18

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Subject: [Leica] RE: Finding things in LR2 and working with DNG files
From: images at comporium.net (Tina Manley)
Date: Mon Aug 18 15:52:53 2008
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At 06:48 PM 8/18/2008, you wrote:
>Bob, I have no experience with LR or LR2 beyond a brief trial but would like
>to add comment on your remarks regarding DNG. I use Bridge and ACR. If you
>are shooting DNG and import with the setting 'convert to DNG' the files take
>a little longer to process, however you get the large advantage that the
>files are LOSSLESSLY compressed in the process, saving around fifty percent
>on the file sizes with no degradation at all.
>
>Cheers
>Geoff

I have had the same experience.  I convert all of my Leica DNG files 
to LR DNG when I import them.  They are much smaller in size.  I 
haven't had any problem with them being corrupt or changing in any 
way from the original RAW file except that they are losslessly compressed.

Tina

Tina Manley
www.tinamanley.com
In reply to: Message from rgacpa at yahoo.com (Bob Adler) (Finding things in LR2, was: Re: [Leica] Is Lightroom 2.0 Really Shipping?)
Message from hoppyman at bigpond.net.au (Geoff Hopkinson) ([Leica] RE: Finding things in LR2 and working with DNG files)