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Software, Editing and Printing => Adobe Photoshop => Topic started by: SimonW on February 09, 2011, 12:38:44 PM
My Adobe Elements 8 doesn't support Camera Raw 6.3 and hence the RAW files from my new compact. So I use the free Adobe DNG Converter to create DNG files from them. The converter is simple - it just creates a DNG version of every RAW file in a folder. This includes the DNG files it created itself on a previous run. (This is obviously unneccessary and must be a programming error.)
I've noticed that the DNG files are always slightly smaller than the RAW files they were made from. This includes those made from DNG files it created itself! I wonder what, if anything, is being lost in the conversion process....
http://thedambook.com/smf/index.php?topic=2683.0
DNG has a compression algorithm built in. It's apparently Lossless