Canon doesn't but that doesn't mean I don't use it. I convert every file I make to DNG format for this reason. First of all right now Adobe, Canon and Nikon are the it companies, but time changes that. The last stock price I saw with Kodak it was under $2.00 a share, and who could argue that it was once one of the top photographic companies in the world. Polorid is gone. Who is to say any or all of today's it companies will not be the next Kodak or Polorid??
DNG is an open source format so any company is free to use it. That I think gives it the best chance to be around when everything else of the era is gone. Adobe does make a DNG converter and it works well for me.
I suspect Howard you are partly correct that is was for the money, but I also have a hunch there are some technical reasons too. The Raw formats with Canon have changed. My 10d used one raw format, but my 50d uses a different file type all together. There are a lot of things the 50d can do that is beyond the ability of a 10d, and it would seem prefectly logical on the technical front that a file would need to be different to accomated those advances. As new cameras come out though, so do new versions of Adobe DNG converter to handle the changes.
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Subject: Re: Everybody Is A Photographer
From: Howard LEIGH <howard.leigh111@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, September 28, 2011 2:24 pm
To: List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students
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How many digital cameras and scanners use .dng as a raw format? I know Nikon, Canon certainly don't as yet, though I believe Adobe can do the transformation.
The industry has gone down that line for financial reasons, I suspect.
HowardOn 26 September 2011 14:55, Emily L. Ferguson <elf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:At 1:43 PM +0100 9/26/11, wildimages@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:There is. It's a dng.
but a common raw format should be universal by now ...
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