5. RAW OR DNG—IT’S YOUR CHOICE
AS YOU ARE importing pictures into Lightroom, you will notice that you have two options at the very top of the Import window: Copy as DNG and Copy (Figure 5.1).
The DNG file format is an archival format that was designed by Adobe to combat the large number of different RAW camera formats that are out there. Every manufacturer has a different proprietary RAW format, so it requires a bunch of different types of software to read each file type. Adobe’s idea was to create one standard format so that all of these files can be read. Camera companies are a little slow to adopt the DNG format, but there is a lot of benefits ...
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