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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Hi Paul,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Your master preservation files for images created with digital cameras should be saved as DNGs. Proprietary file types, such as the RAW files created by Canon or Nikon cameras, etc are not universally accessible, so have a high potential of creating problems for access down the road. Convert the RAW file format to DNG within a program such as Photoshop; DNG files are large as they retain the maximum pixel data for your image. Make sure you’re adding metadata to your DNG files. Then you can create derivatives for use, e.g. high resolution TIFF files, low-res JPEGs, etc.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Dawn<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tw Cen MT","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Dawn Roberts | Director of Collections<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tw Cen MT","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>The Chicago Academy of Sciences / Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tw Cen MT","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>2430 North Cannon Drive, Chicago, IL 60614 | www.naturemuseum.org<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tw Cen MT","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tw Cen MT","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Collections Facility and Office<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tw Cen MT","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>4001 N Ravenswood Avenue, suite 201, Chicago, IL 60613 | 773-755-5125<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tw Cen MT","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tw Cen MT","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>The Urban Gateway to Nature and Science<o:p></o:p></span></i></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Nhcoll-l [mailto:nhcoll-l-bounces@mailman.yale.edu] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Callomon,Paul<br><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, May 08, 2018 2:58 PM<br><b>To:</b> NH-COLL listserv (nhcoll-l@mailman.yale.edu)<br><b>Subject:</b> [Nhcoll-l] Raw file format<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Folks,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><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><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><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 style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'><hr size=2 width="100%" align=center></span></div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><b><span 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">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><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>