While waiting for a smartphone/dng solution from DXO PL

[pierre5018 (PIERRE LABRECHE)]

To readers of this post : please consider voting for the following items related to dng files

Dng file format : Samsung Galaxy S8, ... S20 phones

Generic support for Android DNG images has been in the backlog since at least June 2018, and has been raised multiple times before and since then. I first raised it myself on the old forum, either in early 2016, or at the end of 2015. Despite being ‘under development’ last March, it seems it still hasn’t made it into Version 4. Which is very disappointing. So, I’m voting in support of your request.

Process by Nik collection: allow DNG support with options for corrections

The advantage is that DNGs produced by PL appear to be more compact than TIFs, and DXO already supports output to DNG with just optical corrections and denoising (HQ, Prime, DeepPRIME). A workflow via DNGs is the preferred route if multiple images are derived from a raw file. The long process of demosaicking and denoising is performed once, with optical corrections saved to a DNG. From there, a user could continue editing in PL, or invoke external programs accepting DNG. For example Picture …