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Lossy DNG isn’t so bad

You could save 80 to 90% of the size of your raw files by converting them to lossy dng. There are caveats, and it's worth knowing what you're getting into before you leap.
odd.blog/2024/06/28/lossy-dng-…

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in reply to Bob Horowitz

@BobHorowitz yeah. I haven't seen many people talk about the actual difference between images. The examples I have in my blog post make me think it has something to do with lens correction. That warping looks like the pop when I correct it.

Unless it's a photo of lots of straight lines I don't think anyone is going to notice, so I'm happy to use it.

in reply to Donncha Ó Caoimh

I'm not in danger of running out of space any time soon. I have 1.3TB of space on my photos external drive but I just saw that in October 2023 I shot 208GB, or over 8000 photos.
So many photos are street shots that didn't work out. I already cleaned out the 27th, deleting about 60 and making over 200 into lossy DNG files.
Each of those original files is 25MB. Squashed down to about 4MB as a lossy DNG.

#photography

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