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| bio | website | groovbird.blogspot.com |
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| location | Wetteren, Belgium | |
| age | 37 | |
| visits | member for | 2 years, 10 months |
| seen | Feb 17 at 18:56 | |
| stats | profile views | 55 |
I like photography, music and electronics.
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May 12 |
awarded | Nice Answer |
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Feb 13 |
awarded | Nice Answer |
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Jan 18 |
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What is RAW, technically? let us continue this discussion in chat |
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Jan 18 |
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What is RAW, technically? The DNG format supports embedding the original RAW file in its entirety. Why is that, you think? Some camera vendor may come up with a system that allows sensor information that is so complex that it cannot be represented by any of DNG's standards, so no, DNG is not RAW, RAW is by definition up to the camera vendor, so it's proprietary, and conversion from RAW to DNG results unavoidably in data loss because you can't prove that it will never result in data loss. Just because you don't know what is lost, or you don't care about what is lost, doesn't mean that it's not lost. |
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Jan 18 |
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What is RAW, technically? Lastly, you may have a camera that shoots DNG RAW images, so there won't any loss of information, but that does not apply to DNG in general. |
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Jan 18 |
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What is RAW, technically? It happened to me years ago. I naively converted some of my RAWs to DNG and threw away the originals, only to find out that DxO (a product that publicly states that it supports DNG) did not want to read my DNG files. Live and learn. |
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Jan 18 |
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What is RAW, technically? @FakeName The DNG converter does not have any more information about the picture that was taken than what's in the RAW file that's being converted, so it can't add information to it. All it can do is take all the information that comes from the RAW file that fits in the DNG specification, and discard everything else. That may or may not be more or less than what you care about, but it's a simple fact. Some camera vendor may put in more information in the RAW format than that is supported by either the DNG specification or the DNG converter used at the time of conversion. |
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Jan 17 |
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What is RAW, technically? @FakeName DNG is an abstraction of RAW. It serves a similar purpose, but it's not the same thing. RAW means, by definition, proprietary, not open, and every bit of information that was available at the time the picture was taken. DNG, by definition, removes some of that information. |
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Oct 8 |
awarded | Student |
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Oct 2 |
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Can I use the Canon 5D Mark II to playback edited video? @dpollitt I concur |
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Oct 1 |
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Can I use the Canon 5D Mark II to playback edited video? I'm fairly certain it's 1080p. My TV reports it as such, and there's really a lot of detail in the picture. Also, I have an older WDTV that I could use, but it needs a power supply, and as such is not as mobile. |
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Oct 1 |
asked | Can I use the Canon 5D Mark II to playback edited video? |
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Aug 6 |
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What are alternatives to a tripod when I can't take one along? I've had success up to a full second exposure. How long do you need? |
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Jul 15 |
awarded | Yearling |
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Feb 15 |
awarded | Populist |
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Oct 7 |
awarded | Nice Answer |
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Jul 16 |
awarded | Yearling |
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Jun 2 |
awarded | Good Answer |
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Mar 18 |
awarded | Nice Answer |
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Dec 9 |
awarded | Precognitive |
