Nikon – David Kotz

CR3 vs DNG

No more DNG for me.

[Time for another photogeek blog post!]

I’ve been using a DLSR camera since 2008 and have been photographing in Raw since 2012, after I finally realized the benefits of camera-raw over jpeg. In 2012 I also started keeping my entire photo collection in Adobe Lightroom, allowing Lightroom to convert any Raw photos to DNG (‘digital negative’) files at the time of import. Why? Because I was convinced by books and bloggers that DNG is The Right Way to store images. Today, ten years later, I’ve changed my mind. In this post I explain why.

Going mirrorless

Time to make the leap!

I’ve been a Nikon photographer for nearly forty years – first with an SLR and then a DSLR – but decided to upgrade to mirrorless and settled on a Canon EOS R5 after extensive research. Here’s why.