Raw camera files

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Preservation Format

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

Access Format

JPG

Normalization tool

ImageMagick/UFRaw for conversion to jpeg access copies

Comments

• • 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.