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Details for: Digital Negative Format (DNG) 1.0
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Summary
Name Digital Negative Format (DNG)
Version 1.0
Other names  
Identifiers PUID:  fmt/436
MIME:  image/dng
MIME:  image/tiff
Family  
Classification Image (Raster)
Disclosure Full
Description The Digital Negative (DNG) Specification describes a non-proprietary file format for storing camera raw files that can be used by a wide range of hardware and software vendors. DNG is an extension of the TIFF 6.0 format, and is compatible with the TIFF-EP standard. This initial version accompanied the launch of DNG and related products. It was a rare, possibly unique, example of a raw image format specification published by its owner. It was adequate for representing typical images, but it had a few errors and deficiencies (specifically the lack of support for "masked pixels" and an inadvertent deviation from the JPEG specification) that required it soon to be replaced by the next version.
Orientation  
Byte order  
Related file formats Has priority over Exchangeable Image File Format (Uncompressed) (2.2)
Has priority over Exchangeable Image File Format (Uncompressed) (2.1)
Has priority over Exchangeable Image File Format (Uncompressed) (2.0)
Has priority over Tagged Image File Format for Electronic Photography (TIFF/EP)  
Has priority over Nikon Digital SLR Camera Raw Image File  
Has priority over Tagged Image File Format  
Is previous version of Digital Negative Format (DNG) (1.1)
Is subtype of Tagged Image File Format  
Technical Environment  
Released 27 Sep 2004
Supported until  
Format Risk  
Developed by None.
Supported by None.
Source  
Source date 11 Jun 2012
Source description 11/2023 (v.116)- New MIME type identifier 'image/dng' added and max offset of EOF internal signatures increased to 128000. Submitted by Brigham Young University.
Last updated 16 Nov 2023
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