Raw file formats are becoming extremely popular in digital photography workflows because they offer creative professionals greater creative control. However, cameras can use many different raw formats - the specifications for which are not publicly available - which means that not every raw file can be read by a variety of software applications. As a result, the use of these proprietary raw files as a long-term archival solution carries risk, and sharing these files across complex workflows is even more challenging.

The solution to this growing problem? The Digital Negative (DNG), a new, publicly available archival format for the raw files generated by digital cameras. By addressing the lack of an open standard for the raw files created by individual camera models, DNG helps ensure that photographers will be able to access their files in the future.

In addition to announcing the Digital Negative, Adobe announces the availability of the free Adobe DNG Converter (Windows® | Macintosh), which easily translates raw files from many of today's popular cameras. Software developers and manufacturers can download the complete DNG specification (PDF: 276k). DNG is supported by both Adobe® Photoshop® CS and Adobe Photoshop Elements 3.0 (Windows® | Macintosh) software.

I wouldn't say that, any pro level camera saves images raw.

Krashan wrote:
I was talking about DNG.

Krashan wrote:
Seems that major vendors of digital cameras decided to ignore this format. Then there is no point in wasting scarce MorphOS programmers manpower on it.