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<blockquote data-quote="Eye-level" data-source="post: 145715" data-attributes="member: 6548"><p>Here is what a member of the other forum posted and I think it pretty much sums the situation up most excellently. From now on I will shoot RAW and save in DNG and now I need to find another type of file for my completely finished work that I will post or whatever plus I am going to try and print the very best ones. (Which will be easy for me because I do not often make "the very best ones". haha)</p><p></p><p>"<span style="color: #ADAEAE"><span style="font-family: 'verdana'">Raw files are always subject to the interpretation of a raw processing application.</span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #ADAEAE"><span style="font-family: 'verdana'">If you are looking to archive your finished work, it needs to be in a different format, one which can encapsulate in a fixed manner the work you've put into the image rendering.</span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #ADAEAE"><span style="font-family: 'verdana'">If you are looking to archive your raw data, DNG is a good, solid raw format, the only one with a publicly distributed format specification.</span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #ADAEAE"><span style="font-family: 'verdana'">Archival quality prints might be the best overall way to archive your finished work for the ages, or at least for your kids and friends, but that does not obviate the need to archive and maintain your digital data as well. Even if you personally are the only person who will ever benefit from digital archiving of your work, you sure don't want to lose all the raw AND finished digital photographs you've made while you're still alive. After you pass away, what happens to all of that is up to your descendants and is no longer your concern, same as for your prints."</span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Eye-level, post: 145715, member: 6548"] Here is what a member of the other forum posted and I think it pretty much sums the situation up most excellently. From now on I will shoot RAW and save in DNG and now I need to find another type of file for my completely finished work that I will post or whatever plus I am going to try and print the very best ones. (Which will be easy for me because I do not often make "the very best ones". haha) "[COLOR=#ADAEAE][FONT=verdana]Raw files are always subject to the interpretation of a raw processing application.[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#ADAEAE][FONT=verdana]If you are looking to archive your finished work, it needs to be in a different format, one which can encapsulate in a fixed manner the work you've put into the image rendering.[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#ADAEAE][FONT=verdana]If you are looking to archive your raw data, DNG is a good, solid raw format, the only one with a publicly distributed format specification.[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#ADAEAE][FONT=verdana]Archival quality prints might be the best overall way to archive your finished work for the ages, or at least for your kids and friends, but that does not obviate the need to archive and maintain your digital data as well. Even if you personally are the only person who will ever benefit from digital archiving of your work, you sure don't want to lose all the raw AND finished digital photographs you've made while you're still alive. After you pass away, what happens to all of that is up to your descendants and is no longer your concern, same as for your prints."[/FONT][/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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