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  • lacconic Jan 11, ‘24
    Future-Proof Your Film Scans With Digital Negatives

    I appreciate all the content on this site, it has clearly taken a lot of time and hard work. I’ve enjoyed reading it.

    People quite understandably believe that the DNGs they generate by a dedicated scanner and scanning software such as a VueScan hold undebayered RAW image data — when its actually just a TIF wrapped in a DNG.

    The same result as when Photoshop allows the user to wrap a JPG or TIF in a DNG…

    As you say — if someone is using a DSLR to capture their negatives — is strongly recommended to archive the (real) RAW/undebayered files.

    There are few if any advantages in archiving a DNG over a TIF from a dedicated film scanner unless the scanner (could provide the undebayered data).

  • Dmitri Jan 11, ‘24

    Are you referring to the container format vs the data itself? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cont…

    I regularly come across various file encoding issues and find them both fascinating and frustrating.