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I have been getting confused by the many references to DNG as a RAW file especially with tools which promote "Convert to RAW" when the output is DNG,.
A RAW file contains sensor data which needs to go through a converted into an image format like DNG or TIF.
I know that Adobe promotes DNG as a Digital Negative, but it is based on TIFF, and needs no conversion. My understanding was that DNG files did not contain sensor data however, from that Wikipedia reference (which I felt may be more objective) it states:
Am I missing something?
Thanks
A RAW file contains sensor data which needs to go through a converted into an image format like DNG or TIF.
I know that Adobe promotes DNG as a Digital Negative, but it is based on TIFF, and needs no conversion. My understanding was that DNG files did not contain sensor data however, from that Wikipedia reference (which I felt may be more objective) it states:
- "The latter (non-raw) format is known as "Linear DNG".[36] Linear DNG is still scene-referred[37] and can still benefit from many of the operations typically performed by a raw converter, such as white balance, the application of a camera color profile, HDR compositing, etc. All images that can be supported as raw images can also be supported as Linear DNG. Images from the Foveon X3 sensor or similar, hence especially Sigma cameras, can only be supported as Linear DNG."
- "DNG can contain raw image data from sensors with various configurations of color filter array (CFA)"
Am I missing something?
Thanks