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<blockquote data-quote="480sparky" data-source="post: 251213" data-attributes="member: 15805">Exactly the Sky Is Falling response that's typical.This all isn't going to happen overnight.&nbsp; No one is going to wake up tomorrow and find their computers crashing, and all the software currently on the market has been sucked up into a UFO and taken to the Ketimar System in Orion.IF.&nbsp;&nbsp; If.&nbsp; &nbsp; If Nikon goes south, my computer will still operate.&nbsp; And if.&nbsp; If.... IF for some unworldly reason my computer just happens to die the same day Nikon shutters it's offices, I'm fairly certain there will still be other computers on the market, as well as other software on the market, that can deal with my archive of NEFs.Personally, I think I'll take my chances on the 99.999999% odds that I'll have the hardware, software and TIME to convert my NEFs fo DNG (or whatever format is the Flavor of the Month at the time), instead of worrying about the 0.000001% chance I'll lose my images.As for the Kodak reference, I'm not speaking to the Kodak raw file.&nbsp; I'm speaking about the fact that just because a company is big doesn't mean it will be around forever.&nbsp; Adobe is a company, not an immortal god.&nbsp; They can fail just like Nikon and Canon and all the other companies out there can.... and Kodak was just an example I put forth.If NEF files cannot (or are so blessed difficult) to decode, there wouldn't be all that 3rd-party software out there.... software that even the likes of Adobe produces.&nbsp; We have no guarantees that DNG is the future-proof file format it's claiming to be.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="480sparky, post: 251213, member: 15805"] Exactly the Sky Is Falling response that's typical. This all isn't going to happen overnight. No one is going to wake up tomorrow and find their computers crashing, and all the software currently on the market has been sucked up into a UFO and taken to the Ketimar System in Orion. IF. If. [B]If[/B] Nikon goes south, my computer will still operate. And if. If.... [B]IF[/B] for some unworldly reason my computer [I]just happens[/I] to die the same day Nikon shutters it's offices, I'm fairly certain there will still be other computers on the market, as well as other software on the market, that can deal with my archive of NEFs. Personally, I think I'll take my chances on the 99.999999% odds that I'll have the hardware, software and TIME to convert my NEFs fo DNG (or whatever format is the Flavor of the Month at the time), instead of worrying about the 0.000001% chance I'll lose my images. As for the Kodak reference, I'm not speaking to the Kodak raw file. I'm speaking about the fact that just because a company is big doesn't mean it will be around forever. Adobe is a [I]company[/I], not an immortal [I]god[/I]. They can fail just like Nikon and Canon and all the other companies out there can.... and Kodak was just an example I put forth. If NEF files cannot (or are so blessed difficult) to decode, there wouldn't be all that 3rd-party software out there.... software that even the likes of Adobe produces. We have no guarantees that DNG is the future-proof file format it's claiming to be. [/QUOTE]

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