Raw camera files

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Significant characteristics of raster images[edit]

Preservation Format[edit]

None, but DNG may be used as a preservation format in the future

Access Format[edit]

JPEG

Normalization tool[edit]

ImageMagick/UFRaw for conversion to JPEG access copies

Comments[edit]

  • Library of Congress states that Adobe Digital Negative (DNG), Version 1.1 may be emerging as a standard preservation format for raw camera images.
  • Adobe provides a free (but not open-source) Adobe DNG Converter designed for downloading to Windows or Mac computers.
  • An open-source option for converting RAW image files to DNG is DigiKam DNGConverter.