Number 5 ("
The SuperYawn") has just become my desktop background.
Big Stick, thanks for posting at a nice high resolution! One thing not raised on this thread (and that may be important to some folks), is that RAW is not a single format, but dozens of them (some specific to a SINGLE camera). These are proprietary formats, unlike jpeg.
Think about what has already happened to many proprietary computer file formats.
Any of you have early Wordstar or WordPerfect files they have tried to work with lately?
In 25 years, I am confident that programs
will be able to read our current jpegs (today nearly as universal a format as text) but I am much less confident that
Photoshop Version 157.45 (or whatever we are using then!) will be able to open the RAW format of say, a Nikon 200 (which Nikon introduced in 2005 and has already partially orphaned in their software today).
John
