Maximising Image Quality: DNG and RAW Compared

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  1. Very interesting article. I always shoot RAW on both my Nikon and Olympus systems. I have two systems — I was a Nikon user for years but jumped ship to Olympus because they are much lighter and easier to carry, but I couldn’t part with my beloved Nikon cameras…so kept both. Anyway a few years ago I read an article suggesting that Raw files should be converted to DNG for Lightroom use as they load faster and are easier to store…no sidecar files. So I converted about 200 to try it out. For many reasons I didn’t convert the rest. About 6 months ago I switched to Affinity Photo and Luminar Neo as the Adobe system was getting expensive. I don’t know what has happened but all the converted DNG files, both Nikon and Olympus now have a deep purple hue that I can’t get rid of. I converted them in Lightroom and even using Adobe’s DNG converter I am unable to get them back … fortunately I kept backups of the original RAW files…the same cast appears in Luminar and Affinity….I haven’t known anyone else who has encountered this but I won’t be using DNG again….

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