DNG converters?

[Kurt Wall]

On Sun, Aug 09, 2009 at 06:09:31PM -0700, Lonni J Friedman wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 6:00 PM, Kurt Wall<kwall at kurtwerks.com> wrote:
> > On Sun, Aug 09, 2009 at 04:34:10PM -0700, Lonni J Friedman wrote:
> >> Any of you photo experts know of a native Linux tool for converting
> >> DNG (digital negative) format images into some other usable format?
> >
> > Aren't DNGs just a particular RAW format? If so, any RAW converter
> > should do. ufraw, bibble, and rawstudio come to mind. I use ufraw and
> > rawstudio here.
> 
> No, its actually the reverse.  RAW is a particular DNG format.  DNG
> is/was Adobe's attempt at creating an umbrella format that
> 'standardized' all the RAWs (one DNG to rule them all).  Every camera
> vendor creates their own proprietary RAW format.

Ah. As usual, I had it backward. I understand that each vendor has their
own RAW format, though, much to the chagrin of graphics software hackers
everywhere.

K