Raw camera files
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Significant characteristics of raster images
Preservation Format
None, but DNG may be used as a preservation format in the future
Access Format
JPEG
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.