OpenRAW Digital Image Preservation Through Open Documentation

The RAW Problem: In the short history of digital photography, manufacturers have released numerous cameras with constantly evolving RAW formats. This has lead to the existence of a vast number of RAW dialects, even within each major brand, that store image and camera setting data in a different manner. In some cases manufacturers have even encrypted the data within newer RAW files. Intentionally or not this encryption has placed full access to the images stored in these files out of reach of the photographers that took them. Unless, of course, they limit themselves to tools sold by the camera manufacturer. To date, this vast number of RAW formats has been hidden by the transparent support offered in RAW converter software, provided by both the camera manufacturer and various third parties. At the time of writing, the open source dcraw converter currently supports more than 200 formats. However, as manufacturers lose interest in their discontinued products, and drop support for them, the true impact of all of these dialects will be felt. Photographers will find their older images inaccessible, as future software versions lose support for older cameras. In the worst cases, entire brands may disappear, as has already happened with Contax.

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2006 Raw Survey Results - OpenRAW

On January 1, 006, the Open RAW initiative launched an international survey on its Web site. http www.openraw.org survey to collect information about the ...

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Raw image format - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Because of the lack of widespread adoption of a standard raw format, more specialized software may be required to open raw files than for standardized formats ...

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OpenRAW - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

a b c "Original OpenRAW website". http www.openraw.org index-old.html. ... " OpenRAW Fotografen aller Länder, vereinigt Euch!" in German . 2005-04-26.

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