Adobe Wants A New Digital Image Format
from the less-loss,-more-standard dept
As more and more digital cameras start to store images in different formats, Adobe is trying to introduce a single uncompressed format for digital images, to make it easier for people to share those "raw" images without having to compress them into something such as a jpeg. What's a bit unclear from the article, however, is what's wrong with any of the other digital image file standards that are already out there.
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What wrong with existing image format?
Of course, cam manufacturers each using their own different raw image format doesn't help matters any.
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While I'm not sure if a universal format is really useful since Adobe's Camera RAW comes as close to a universal converter, not sure if a universal format is really needed.
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Second, it's not a new format. It's a new defined subset of TIFF, an excellent image storage standard.
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