I teach Lightroom and few years ago, I put together my own David Letterman style of “The Top Ten Reason Not to Convert Your Images to DNG Files”ġ. Thaler, did a really informative write up on why he doesn’t use DNG, and he posted it as a comment here on the blog. A few years back, one of my readers, Reid J. Hope you have a great weekend, and we’ll catch you next week I’m happy with where I’m at - working faster, not wasting time on import converting to DNG, and I still sleep well at night. I know there are a handful of other pros of using DNG, but there are just as many cons. At the time Adobe created the DNG spec, it was probably a legit concern, but these days a 12-year-old could probably write a RAW converter during study hall, so I don’t sweat it. It’s that wasting time thing again.Īm I concerned that one day I won’t be able to open my existing native RAW files created by the camera companies? xmp text file, which happens very quickly in comparison. Plus, if I did convert to DNG for that reason, it takes longer to re-save the entire DNG file over again each time you make a change than it is to just save changes to a. XMP file and the RAW original into one single file isn’t a benefit to me (I don’t work with XMP files that often to begin with). I don’t share files with other users where I need to keep my RAW edits intact when sharing the original RAW file with another user ( see this article), so combining the. Only a handful of smaller companies did, so it never really caught on like it would have if they had all gotten on board. None of the big three camera makers adopted the. Here’s why:Ĭonverting to DNG in Lightroom takes time, I don’t get much benefit back from taking that extra time and so for me and my workflow, it just doesn’t make sense. I’m going to try and keep this as short and sweet as possible, but it’s important to note up front - I’m not telling you-you shouldn’t be converting your RAW files to the DNG format - I’m just telling you I’m not, and I stopped doing it a while back. OK, onto why I don’t convert my Raw images to DNG: Done. You should go RSVP right now (what do you have to lose?) – it’s going to be an incredible event. You get access to all the classes and goodies. Before, before we take this Genie out of the bottle, just a quick heads up: I am super excited to be one of the speakers again at the 8th Annual B&H Photo OPTIC conference (called OPTIC 2022 – It’s a conference for outdoor, wildlife, travel photography, and post-processing), and after a couple of years of doing it virtually, this year they are doing a hybrid event where it’s your choice – you can go and be there live in person as it happens at the New Yorker Hotel in Manhattan, or you can catch the conference online online, but here’s the best part – all you have to do is RSVP and tell ’em you’re coming (and, of course, choose in person or online).
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