• Canon (CR2/CRW)
• Casio (BAY)
• Fuji (RAF)
• Kodak (DCR/KDC)
• Konica (KQP)
• Minolta (MRW)
• Nikon (NEF)
• Olym­pus (OLY/ORF)
• Pentax (PEF)
• Sigma (X3F)
• SONY (SRF)

Sur­prised there are so many? There are about 100 dif­fer­ent RAW formats/variations/flavors. I hope in the future camera and soft­ware devel­op­ers will col­lab­o­rate and create an uni­fied RAW format. Adobe has tried to address the lack of an open stan­dard for RAW files, but instead cre­ated an other RAW flavor called DNG. The prob­lem lies in the fact that camera devel­op­ers don’t natively sup­port DNG. Microsoft wouldn’t be Microsoft, if they wouldn’t cre­ated their own pro­pri­etary format. They recently released the file spec­i­fi­ca­tions of Win­dows Media Photo (WMP) but hey, who cares? Nikon even encrypts their white bal­ance infor­ma­tion con­tained in NEF files and isn’t read­able to third party RAW con​vert​ers.It would be nice to see a MPEG like group which defines the (Open)RAW loss­less format. Camera and soft­ware devel­op­ers use this to create their hard­ware and soft­ware. Like I said in my post about DRM/Next-Gen DVD’s, there’s a format war going on! The one who con­trols the format, con­trols the industry.

Bless me father, for I have sinned… I’ve been very busy lately and neglected my blog, which isn’t good! The main focus (the reason why I’ve cre­ated this blog) was to write about dig­i­tal lifestyle prod­ucts (software/hardware) and how they affect our lifestyle. While busy at cre­at­ing this plat­form I’ve lost my main focus some­where, which is even worse! So as of today no more Kitty pic­tures, I solemnly swear (…maybe???)

I’ve got some com­plaints about my RSS feeds (for the inter­ested: I used <content:encoded> that’s why they didn’t val­i­date). I have rewrit­ten my DRV Syn­di­ca­tion Gen­er­a­tor Frame­work (Feed­burner for short), which is now at ver­sion 1.0.2. It’s now W3C com­pli­ant and will validate!

I am very excited to annouce today the Beta release of the dig­i­tal­ren­dezvous RSS Widget. With a single click, this Dash­board zooms across your Desk­top, giving you fast access to the latest topics on my weblog. You can dowload the Widget here (ZIP-​file 195 KB).

A good friend of mine (Henk van de Goor) was talk­ing about a recipe he saw in a movie called Once Upon A Time In Mexico from direc­tor Robert Rodriguez. In the film Sands (Johnny Depp) eats a dish called Puerco Pibil (slow-​roasted pork) that tastes so good it inspires him to kill the cook. The DVD con­tains a fea­turette called “Ten Minute Cook­ing School: Puerco Pibil” a short doc­u­men­tary fea­tur­ing Robert Rodriguez him­self. His state­ment says it all. I’ve promised him that I would cook the recipe for him, but first the weather is got to change we’re having a Dutch summer. You can view the movie here (Movie 29,7 MB).