tategoi Posted January 16, 2010 Share #1 Posted January 16, 2010 Advertisement (gone after registration) I am just curious what are the best way to capture and import images to the Lightroom. 1. There are 2 DNG formats, Compressed and Uncompressed, with the manual says Compressed causes only a negligible deterioration in quality. Do you really see any differences? 2. When importing into LR, we have a choice of copying the photos as DNG (Adobe's standard), or as Leica's original dng. I noticed that Adobe's DNG files are smaller than Leica's dng. Which is your importing option? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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ethranet Posted January 16, 2010 Share #2 Posted January 16, 2010 Files compressed on import into Lightroom might even be half as big as uncompressed files but with no loss of quality. The compression on the camera reduces bit depth to save size. I just leave the camera in uncompressed DNG only mode and compress on import to save disk space (makes a big difference). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
tategoi Posted January 16, 2010 Author Share #3 Posted January 16, 2010 That's what I do as well. Thanks. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcoombs Posted January 16, 2010 Share #4 Posted January 16, 2010 Files compressed on import into Lightroom might even be half as big as uncompressed files but with no loss of quality. The compression on the camera reduces bit depth to save size. I just leave the camera in uncompressed DNG only mode and compress on import to save disk space (makes a big difference). Do you also leave it as Leica's DNG or do you copy as Adobe DNG? Also, what's the difference? Thanks, .Doug Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
tategoi Posted January 17, 2010 Author Share #5 Posted January 17, 2010 I took pictures with Leica Uncompressed dng. When I import them into LR, I copy as Adobe DNG, and as ethranet mentioned, the file size is about half of Leica dng. So the difference is the file size, as for the image quality, that's the answer I am looking for in this thread. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gpleica Posted January 17, 2010 Share #6 Posted January 17, 2010 This is a really good question and I, too, would like to know if there is any degradation when you import the files into Lightroom as Adobe DNG files. I have been shooting my M9 on compressed DNG's since reading in this forum, early on...back in November, where some members discussed the compressed/uncompressed issue in great detail, coming to the conclusion that uncompressed is only worth using when shooting over ISO 640. Otherwise, save the space and shoot compressed if you're using ISOs less than 640 as there will be no loss in image quality that is even faintly noticeable to the human eye. Assuming that the goal is to have the most effectively usable data-rich files from which to work, are there other views on this? Geoffrey Milford, PA Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
eritho Posted January 17, 2010 Share #7 Posted January 17, 2010 Advertisement (gone after registration) Please note this thread: http://www.l-camera-forum.com/leica-forum/leica-m9-forum/110293-dng-compressed.html Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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