


Visit the user forums for Adobe Camera Raw, Lightroom, and other applications that edit camera raw images, and you’ll quickly come across one of the most common questions: “When will your raw editor support the new camera I just bought?” Camera raw format is popular because it preserves more original image quality than the more common JPEG format, although a raw file takes up more storage space. Are you already using DNG without even knowing it? Let’s find out. While DNG hasn’t exactly become a household name, its inherent versatility has recently brought DNG into wider use behind the scenes in several Adobe and non-Adobe photo workflows, and not just for camera raw files. The Adobe Digital Negative (DNG) format started out as an open file format for saving raw image data from the sensor in a digital camera.
