Wiki/website

[Will Stokes]

Writing to DNG will be good enough. In the future I could suport the
Aperature approach and apply a stack of transformations on the fly,
but if the user does not have a fancy gfx card this will be painful so
it will be better if I can save one or more intermediate images in a
lossless format like DNG. PNG or TIFF would not suffice because as I
understand it they do not support 16 or 24 bits per channel like RAW
file formats do.

-Will

On 12/7/06, Hubert Figuiere <hub at figuiere.net> wrote:
> Will Stokes wrote:
> > Hubert,
> >
> > Just thought I'd let you know another developer is lurking on this
> > list. I'm excited about what you're up to and look forward to ditching
> > my fork of some dcraw code and use libopenraw exclusively for both
> > getting thumbnails (what I do currently) as well as reading and
> > writing to raw file formats (something I'm intrested in in the future.
>
> writing to RAW files ain't gonna happen. Unless it is DNG, for the sole
> purpose of offering conversion to DNG (even if I still consider it
> unreliable enough as it does not resolve the undocumented RAW issue, but
> just hide it)
>
> > I'm also curious about something. I'm not sure how rational this is,
> > but as many know ijg's libjpeg supports some nifty fast transforms and
> > scaling operations. I doubt the latter is possible with raw file
> > formats, but perhaps rotations and flipping could be made ultra fast
> > as well?
>
> The only transformation libopenraw will offer is processing the RAW data
> (usually CFA) to a RGB pixmap.
>
>
> Hub
>