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<blockquote data-quote="BackdoorArts" data-source="post: 284937" data-attributes="member: 9240">A lot of reasons, but primarily it's for compatibility with Adobe tools, across releases and other things.&nbsp; DNG's tend to be slightly smaller than their NEF counterparts as well.&nbsp; DaveW and I went into this in a lot more depth in another thread somewhere, but it's just something I've done since I got Lightroom.&nbsp; It's not necessarily &quot;better&quot;, but it has the potential to save time and headaches down the road as RAW standards change.&nbsp; Here's a blog that summarizes it.<a href="http://photographyconcentrate.com/should-you-convert-dng/" target="_blank">Should You Convert Your Photos to DNG? | Photography Concentrate</a>It also raises the question of whether or not to convert JPEG to DNG.&nbsp; As a rule I would not make a habit of it, but I have a catalog of images taken with Point &amp; Shoot cameras in Rocky Mountain Nat'l Park that I need to look at re-editing, and the idea of being able to apply non-destructive edits to the original files is something rather appealing.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="BackdoorArts, post: 284937, member: 9240"] A lot of reasons, but primarily it's for compatibility with Adobe tools, across releases and other things. DNG's tend to be slightly smaller than their NEF counterparts as well. DaveW and I went into this in a lot more depth in another thread somewhere, but it's just something I've done since I got Lightroom. It's not necessarily "better", but it has the potential to save time and headaches down the road as RAW standards change. Here's a blog that summarizes it. [url=http://photographyconcentrate.com/should-you-convert-dng/]Should You Convert Your Photos to DNG? | Photography Concentrate[/url] It also raises the question of whether or not to convert JPEG to DNG. As a rule I would not make a habit of it, but I have a catalog of images taken with Point & Shoot cameras in Rocky Mountain Nat'l Park that I need to look at re-editing, and the idea of being able to apply non-destructive edits to the original files is something rather appealing. [/QUOTE]

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