Anyone using DNG?

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Jeremy Nixon <jeremy@exit109.com> wrote:
> Thomas T. Veldhouse <veldy71@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> Ah .. I see. In that case, any software that requires one to install
>> another vendors software before you can use theirs, just for access to
>> its basic libraries, is likely not worth the cost of its shrinkwrapping.
>
> I don't know -- does anyone include the camera libraries? Are they even
> allowed to?
>

I am quite sure that they can be licensed. Nikon likes money like
everybody else.

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Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote:
> Jeremy Nixon <jeremy@exit109.com> wrote:
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> > I don't know -- does anyone include the camera libraries? Are they even
> > allowed to?
>
> I am quite sure that they can be licensed. Nikon likes money like
> everybody else.

The Nikon advisory that responded to criticism of their encryption of
the WB for the D2X said:

"With each introduction of a new Nikon digital Single Lens Reflex
model, Nikon updates the available SDK selection to provide new
information; this is the situation with the D2X, D2Hs and D50 models.
As stated above, application for the Nikon SDK is possible for bona
fide software companies that send Nikon a written application for the
SDK. Once approved, the SDK is provided to the developer at no charge
and they are authorized to use it".

I don't know whether they are authorised to distribute it. I believe
the developer has to sign an NDA. And the SDK doesn't provide access to
the raw data, just to de-mosaiced data.

http/www.dpreview.com/news/0504/05042203nikonnefresponse.asp

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