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Wednesday, 07 May 2008 Adobe pushes DNG RAW at ISO

Adobe wants its DNG RAW format accepted as a standard by the ISO

Jonny Evans

Adobe has submitted its DNG RAW file format to the ISO as a proposed new standard, according to Adobe’s John Nack.

The software has so far failed to gain widespread deployment on the part of camera mannufacturers, so Adobe hopes that by having its software recognised as an international standard it will be able to promote use.

“When we came out with the first camera RAW plug-in, we were supporting around 25 cameras. We’re now supporting more than 175 cameras - in other words, more than 175 different file formats. And when you’re talking about images, people don’t want to keep those images for just five or 10 years. Professional photographers want to know those images will be fine for 50 years - 100 years - from now. If you think about the rate of new-camera introductions, how many new file formats will there be?” Nack, the Photoshop Product Manager, writes on his blog.

Nack accepts that major camera vendors including Canon and Nikon have so far failed to adopt DNG, adding; “Maybe we'll see more progress now that DNG has been submitted to the ISO as a vendor-independent standard.”

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