{"id":3163,"date":"2005-06-03T14:37:35","date_gmt":"2005-06-03T14:37:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/heaths\/2005\/06\/03\/raw-images-to-be-supported-in-longhorn\/"},"modified":"2005-06-03T14:37:35","modified_gmt":"2005-06-03T14:37:35","slug":"raw-images-to-be-supported-in-longhorn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/raw-images-to-be-supported-in-longhorn\/","title":{"rendered":"Raw Images to be Supported in Longhorn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a photography enthusiast and the son of a professional photographer (SLR, or &#8220;single lens reflex&#8221;), I am excited to read that <a href=\"http:\/\/news.com.com\/Longhorn+photo+support+comes+into+focus\/2100-1016_3-5727545.html\">Longhorn will support raw image formats<\/a> from several manufacturers of <a href=\"http:\/\/electronics.howstuffworks.com\/digital-camera.htm\">digital cameras<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.steves-digicams.com\/cameras_digpro.html\">digital SLRs<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Raw images are pre-pixilated dumps from the image sensor&nbsp;&#8211; a CCD &#8211; that are comparable to film. Keeping raw images as master copies allow you to produce anything of equal or lesser quality. While most high-resolution JPEGs are suitable for most enthusiasts and even some professional uses, the raw image format &#8211; a manufacturer proprietary format, unless Adobe succeeds in getting manufacturers to adopt the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adobe.com\/aboutadobe\/pressroom\/pressreleases\/200409\/092704DNG.html\">Digital Negative Specification<\/a> &#8211; provide all the data about the picture to make&nbsp;lower-quality copies.<\/p>\n<p>Till now, Windows required that you imported and converted these in order to display them in Windows without special software like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adobe.com\/products\/photoshop\/main.html\">Adobe Photoshop CS2<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/msdn.microsoft.com\/library\/en-us\/shellcc\/platform\/shell\/reference\/ifaces\/iextractimage\/iextractimage.asp\">thumbnail shell extension<\/a> is also expected to ship before Longhorn for down-level platforms like Windows XP.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a photography enthusiast and the son of a professional photographer (SLR, or &#8220;single lens reflex&#8221;), I am excited to read that Longhorn will support raw image formats from several manufacturers of digital cameras and digital SLRs. Raw images are pre-pixilated dumps from the image sensor&nbsp;&#8211; a CCD &#8211; that are comparable to film. Keeping [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":389,"featured_media":3843,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[29],"class_list":["post-3163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-personal"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>As a photography enthusiast and the son of a professional photographer (SLR, or &#8220;single lens reflex&#8221;), I am excited to read that Longhorn will support raw image formats from several manufacturers of digital cameras and digital SLRs. Raw images are pre-pixilated dumps from the image sensor&nbsp;&#8211; a CCD &#8211; that are comparable to film. Keeping [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/389"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3163\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}