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Adobe updates DNG photo format, adds Vista support

 

Adobe’s Digital Negative specification, also known as the DNG format, was updated Tuesday, as the company pushes it to become a unified standard for working with raw photographic images taken by digital cameras.

Adobe updates DNG photo format, adds Vista support

DNG submitted as ISO standard

This could certainly make things interesting… and easier.

Adobe have submitted the DNG (Digital Negative) RAW file format to the ISO as a proposed new standard, according to Adobe’s John Nack.

Adobe DNG was first released a couple of years ago, but has struggled to gain real traction with most camera manufacturers, who continue to use their own proprietary formats.

DNG submitted as ISO standard

What would you change (first) about Windows’ look and feel?

It looks like we were a little premature, but I think this confirms that we aren’t going to see any real photography from Microsoft anytime soon:

“I can’t imagine doing serious imaging anywhere other than Adobe, but, I needed to do something other than imaging for a while.”

If you were hired by Microsoft to make the Windows experience less annoying, what would be on your to-do list?

Mark Hamburg, the Adobe Photoshop/LightRoom guru recently hired by Microsoft, is tasked with figuring out how to improve the way Microsoft’s operating system works.

Hamburg didn’t recently join Microsoft to work on SmartFlow, Microsoft’s alleged competitor to LightRoom, as I guessed yesterday. Instead, he’s working on future OS interface concepts, according to a posting on the ProPhotoHome blog that a reader forwarded to me. According to the post:

What would you change (first) about Windows’ look and feel?