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<blockquote data-quote="Felisek" data-source="post: 467571" data-attributes="member: 23887">Re: RAW or DNGAll software I use, both for processing and viewing, accept NEF files without a hiccup. I don't see any reason to convert my images to the DNG format. The only potential reason I can understand is that in some distant future software will stop understanding the NEF format. I'm pretty sure there will be plenty of warnings before it happens and I can do the conversion later if I have to.DNG might use lossless compression, but this is no guarantee that nothing is being lost in the process of conversion. Has anyone of you ever tried converting MS Word document into one of the open source counterparts, e.g. LibreOffice? It kind of works, but inevitably, there will be something screwed up - missing fonts, wrongly formatted tables and so on. This is why I'm deeply suspicious about NEF to DNG conversion. Something might be missing.NEF files are my raw, unadulterated data. I want to keep it this way.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Felisek, post: 467571, member: 23887"] [b]Re: RAW or DNG[/b] All software I use, both for processing and viewing, accept NEF files without a hiccup. I don't see any reason to convert my images to the DNG format. The only potential reason I can understand is that in some distant future software will stop understanding the NEF format. I'm pretty sure there will be plenty of warnings before it happens and I can do the conversion later if I have to. DNG might use lossless compression, but this is no guarantee that nothing is being lost in the process of conversion. Has anyone of you ever tried converting MS Word document into one of the open source counterparts, e.g. LibreOffice? It kind of works, but inevitably, there will be something screwed up - missing fonts, wrongly formatted tables and so on. This is why I'm deeply suspicious about NEF to DNG conversion. Something might be missing. NEF files are my raw, unadulterated data. I want to keep it this way. [/QUOTE]

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