Photographers create OpenRAW project in response to RAW encryption

Here's another chapter in the Nikon RAW
encryption saga: going a bit more meta than the hacking of any one particular proprietary RAW format, photographers are getting together to demand that digital camera companies release documentation of their RAW file formats. The goal of the group, spearheaded by Japan-based German photographer Juergen Specht, is to educate the public and digital camera manufacturers of the dangers inherent in locking down the RAW file format, which most professional photographers prefer to use. Regardless of whether or not this whole kerfuffle is more PR gaming on the part of Adobe than malice on the part of Nikon, the fact does remain that camera manufacturers are reluctant or downright refusing to release information about their RAW formats, so it will likely benefit photographers in the long run if the OpenRAW project succeeds.

[Via Boing Boing]