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    <p>DNG is a good (best) option and is what iDigBio recommends to
      ensure an openly documented format rather than a proprietary
      format that might change without notice or documentation (e.g.
      Nikon NEF).</p>
    <p>Gil<br>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 5/8/2018 3:57 PM, Callomon,Paul
      wrote:<br>
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        <p class="MsoNormal">Folks,<o:p></o:p></p>
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        <p class="MsoNormal">A question for those of you running imaging
          projects: in what format do you store the original,
          high-resolution files? We have been using Nikon raw (.nef) but
          as Adobe no longer makes plug-ins for the latest versions we
          are contemplating converting to DNG before storing the images.
          <o:p></o:p></p>
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        <p class="MsoNormal">Regards,<o:p></o:p></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><span
              style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Paul Callomon</span></b><span
            style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black"><br>
            <i>Collection Manager, Malacology, Invertebrate Paleontology
              and General Invertebrates</i></span><span
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              style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Academy of Natural
              Sciences of Drexel University, Philadelphia<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span
            style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">1900 Benjamin Franklin
            Parkway, Philadelphia PA 19103-1195, USA<br>
            <i><a href="mailto:callomon@ansp.org" target="_blank"
                moz-do-not-send="true">callomon@ansp.org</a> Tel
              215-405-5096 - Fax 215-299-1170</i></span><span
            style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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    <pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">-- 
Gil Nelson, PhD
Research Faculty
iDigBio Steering Committee
Integrated Digitized Biocollections
Institute for Digital Information and Scientific Communication
College of Communication and Information

Courtesy Professor
Department of Biological Sciences
Robert K. Godfrey Herbarium
Florida State University
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:gnelson@bio.fsu.edu">gnelson@bio.fsu.edu</a></pre>
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