Hello fellow M8 users,
I am very happy to announce that I finished the tool mentioned in the thread M8 goes uncompressed DNG!
It creates 16bit (acually 14bit in a 16bit container) DNG files from the M8 RAW files with slightly more pixels and much more discrete values compared to the 8bit standard DNG.
I even set up a website with download, comment function, contact form and whatnot... even though I am really not familiar with web programming so please be lenient if it is not as polished as this site here for example.
The command-line tool is available for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux, so I am now looking forward to getting some input after you tested it on your own files.
You can find more information on m8raw2dng.de.
I am trying to make the program as good as possible (because I am using it myself on a daily basis). To achieve this I thought it clever to share it with the community even though I had to create a completely new software from scratch in C++ even though I already have a running version in Matlab with more functionality. But I think that'll change as I focus now on the C++ version.
I invite you to share this information with other M8 users on other forums, flickr groups, wherever you like.
Have fun and good results,
Arvid