115 DNG Devices

Barry Pearson has put together a comprehensive list of products (OK, so technically *not* "devices", but it sounds better!) that support Adobe's open DNG RAW format.

The list is broken down into categories, such as "Adobe products" and "Products from Camera Manufacturers," and has 115 items so far - the last update was July 13th.

Pearson's blurb from the site:

DNG is an openly-specified, freely-usable, raw file format. It is the only contender as an emerging de facto standard raw file format. This page identifies products that claim to support DNG in some way. I have personal experience of few of these products. Some of the information here is probably just plain wrong! Please tell me of any errors or omissions, so that I can correct them.

Comments

[Barry Pearson]

Thanks for that comment!

It caused me to update the count, which I rarely do. (I learn of perhaps 1 or 2 extra products each week). My new count is "more than 130 non-Adobe products support DNG in some way".

For interest, that page had its origins with Rawformat. Pierre-Etienne Courtejoie posted lists at the ends of February and April 2005, but then the lists became hard to read and Rawformat went "quiet", so I rescued the information and continued to maintain the lists.

http://avondale.typepad.com/rawformat/2005/02/the_state_of_dn.html

http://avondale.typepad.com/rawformat/2005/04/dng_support_sta.html

[Jason]

Haha thanks for picking up the slack!

I guess I should spend more time digging through our own archives ;)

[guy]

I think he left adobe premiere and after effects
these adobe apps support DNG in their latest versions (Pro 2 and 7 respectively)

[Barry Pearson]

Thanks, Guy. I don't have a secret source of information - I often get updates from people like you posting to forums or via email. I've updated my page for After Effects.

I can't find any evidence that Premiere supports DNG. (PNG - yes). Here are the latest Techdocs that I can find:

Supported file formats in Adobe Premiere Pro 2.0
http://www.adobe.com/support/techdocs/332612.html

Supported file formats (Adobe Premiere Elements 2.0)
http://www.adobe.com/support/techdocs/328587.html

It isn't mentioned in the user-to-user forums either.

But the Adobe website is getting as bad as the Macromedia site before Adobe took them over, so I may easily have missed something. (Why don't they concentrate on providing a fast, informative, website, instead of trying and failing to showcase their high-technology?)