Originally posted by Blue Historical perspective and breadth of use of DNG. Plus, Adobe was and is the driving force behind it and given they are a software giant, wouldn't be surprised by anything the were to do in the future.
What do you mean with that?
DNG is accepted as a standard so it's not in Adobe's hands anymore, well the development is but they can't change it too much any more.
Quote: Both. Nikon, Canon and Oly sue their own RAW.
Yes and what is the point?
Quote: Options. Plus, it isn't that uncommon to have more than one. Even on the higher end bodies (D700), TIFF is still an option.
Well good for you then that you can transform your DNG into TIFF, you can even make DNG file the same as TIFF, so all you've to do is change the DNG tag to TIFF and you can open it a stiff.
Adobe added some options to TIFF to make it more useful for camera and those are in the DNG extension, you need to delete those but for the rest DNG is a TIFF file.
beside that, i have never heard anyone besides me complain that we only Have JPEG as compress file.