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More info?)
deryck lant <deryck@deryck.com> writes:
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http
/www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/micro_stories.pl?ACCT=130907&TICK=NIKON&STORY=/www/story/09-05-2005/0004100183&EDATE=Sep+5,+2005
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>
http/forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1021&message=14919748
> Very good news for Nikon shooters.
Marketingspeak decoded by Adobe's Thomas Knoll:
"What this means (so far) is that Nikon has added to their
existing SDK (which performs the entire raw conversion as a black
box) a new 'mini-SDK', which has the sole function of reading the
white balance parameters from a NEF file (while still allowing the
host application to do its own raw conversion).
The upcoming Adobe Camera Raw 3.2 and DNG Converter 3.2 will use
this Nikon 'mini-SDK' to provide 'as shot' white balance support
for the Nikon D2X, D2Hs, and D50."
Source:
http/www.adobeforums.com/cgi-bin/webx?13@117.3zfZe9Y4ZaC.1@.3bbc3e47/1
In other words:
Nikon will continue to encrypt the WB (and other metadata such as
lens parameters).
I agree that it is indeed good news that Nikon now will provide Adobe
with the tools necessary to get access to the WB. But the fundamental
problem - that the metadata in the image is just as much the property
of the photographer as the image data, and therefore should not be
encrypted in the first place - remains.
--
- gisle hannemyr [ gisle{at}hannemyr.no - http
/folk.uio.no/gisle/ ]
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