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DxO Labs Announces Support For Adobe’s Digital Negative (DNG) Specification
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Paris, France, January, 2005 - DxO Labs, a software company focused on research in image processing, today announced that future versions of its flagship RAW converter DxO Raw Engine will support Adobe’s recently announced DNG (Digital Negative) specification.
DxO Labs’ DxO Raw Engine is a key component of DxO Optics PRO a unique software package targeting serious amateur and professional photographers using Digital SLR cameras. A new version of DxO Raw Engine supporting DNG will be available in early 2005.
DxO Optics Pro is the award-winning software application from DxO Labs that automatically improves the quality of images produced by Digital SLR cameras. DxO Raw Engine is a new optional module that works seamlessly within DxO Optics Pro to perform RAW image conversion as well as enabling DxO Optics Pro’s image enhancement features to be applied on RAW files in full 16-bit mode.
“Our ambition is to make DxO Raw Engine the future reference RAW converter for the market in terms of image quality and workflow,” declared Jerome Meniere, CEO of DxO Labs. “As a member of the RAW community, we believe that open standards are an important way to foster fast-paced innovation that will benefit photo enthusiasts. To this end, we strongly welcome and support Adobe’s initiative in promoting more open and documented RAW standards.”
“We are pleased that DNG has been so well received by our customers, partners and forward-looking companies like DxO Labs,” said Kevin Connor, director of product management for professional digital imaging products at Adobe. “Our intent has always been to help our customers protect their raw files for future use. It is important that we establish a standard that keeps pace with the rapid evolution of digital imaging technology. Clearly, the support of others within the industry is the only way we will be able to effectively address what has become such a critical issue for the photography community.”
About DxO Labs and its DxO Technology
DxO Labs is a software company developing image processing technologies and image quality enhancement solutions. DxO Labs provides reliable, off-the-shelf imaging solutions for serious amateurs and professional photographers, photography journalists and experts as well as companies in the imaging business such as digital camera or cameraphone manufacturers or mobile operators.
DxO Labs offers customers highly advanced image processing technologies. The company's patented DxO technology is the result of state-of-the-art academic mathematical research. The DxO Foundations comprise a set of software components to correct major imaging device defects: Blur, Contrast, Demozaicing, Distortion, Vignetting, Chromatic aberration, JPEG artifacts, etc.
For more information, visit DxO Labs online at www.dxo.com .
