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Thanks. I had assumed you meant the Smart Previews, but wasn't sure, so thanks for the clarification.
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So does nobody use Smart Previews?? - they are DNGs!!:surprised:
I don't think the use case is all that relevant for Smart Previews yet. If you are highly mobile and keep your master images on a NAS or other detachable drive, then you might want to create and carry Smart Previews along. At some point in the future when low powered tablets and smart phones are more integrated into our workflow, accessing SPs via the cloud may become practical. Adobe is looking to the future in developing the SP concept now. (Built it and the need will develop for the apps to support it.)So does nobody use Smart Previews?? - they are DNGs!!:surprised:
After initially converting to DNG I went back to using raw only.
-louie
It's amazing how often people still claim it's a disadvantage of DNG that you have to keep backing them up. That's just not so.
The fault is that you haven't re-assessed your backup strategy. Keep a virgin copy of your DNGs - they are the backup of the photo data. You can then go on saving metadata from LR but think of it in terms of sharing metadata with other apps. Don't worry that you need to back up the DNGs to which metadata is written by LR - it doesn't include all your LR work anyway. Instead, backup your catalogue - the combination of the catalogue and the virgin copies gives you 100% coverage.
John
I solved that problem for myself when my SOOC RAW files were DNG by simply not updating the metadata in the original files. The LR catalog keeps all of the metadata Catalog backup are routine and backups of those backups are too. If I ever move away from LR, I'll have time and opportunity to merge XMP metadata to the originals....My point here is not to say people should use DNG, but that "huge backups" is not a convincing reason to avoid it...
A decision as difficult as deciding whether ObamaCare is a good or bad idea, and just as controversial!:crazy:
It won't happen. Politics and religion are not subjects for conversation here. Although "To DNG or not" is bordering too close to religion.Oooh...if we go down THIS road the fireworks over "to DNG or not to DNG, that is the question" will seem quite small...we'll probably overwhelm the server and Victoria will have to move the board again.
For me one big advantage of DNg is that verification.
Can you explain what this "verification" means to you? Why do you consider it so important?