Convert DNG back to RAW?

I'm trying to re-master some photos at work. They're from an architectural photographer who uses a Canon 5D Mk.II, but when he shot the photos, I was using Photoshop CS3 (which was incompatible with the 5D Mk.II's CR2 RAW files)...so I had to convert them to DNG. Now that I have CS5, I'd like to be able to convert them back to the original CR2 format. Additionally, I would like this because Bridge and Photoshop/Camera Raw are having difficulty reading and processing a handful of the DNG files, and some of them have photos I need. Is it even possible to convert back to the original format? Thanks for your help!

rmintzes wrote:
Is it even possible to convert back to the original format?
Only if the original raw file was embedded into the DNG file as an option. Otherwise, no..

Similar Messages

Raw files converted to binary docs (exec). Any ideas on how to get them back to raw?

Ok. Short and sweet first post here. Thanks in advance for any assistance.
I've done this same process on jpegs many times without issue. This time I forgot where I was in my workflow and tried a batch rename on my raw files.
I selected all raw files in a folder, went to tools --> batch rename and entered my file naming sequence as I wanted it to read. Hit enter and watched the file names change correctly BUT the actual files were converted to "binary documents" and I can't figure out how to get them back to raw. My thumbs are gone. If I click on one of the files, the exec file tries to load in terminal.
What happened to my raw files? There are 255 images here from a wedding that I would rather not edit all over again. Please help!
Mac OSX 10.5.7
Bridge CS3 2.1.1.9

Ok. The files don't read any particular extension as seen in my previous attachment. F2 brightens my monitor. It is not associated with any other shortcut. Right click --> rename (not batch) brings the thumbnail back but without the edits. All I did in the beginning was batch rename a folder full of raw images plus 3 psd files. Nothing else. You can see that "new extension" is selected in the top field of the batch rename window. is this the mistake and how can I recover my edits if it is.
There are 253 edited images in this folder. Manual renaming will take ages. Editing all of them again is also making me ill. I was prepping the files for client submission which is due today when this happened.

'DNG-back-to-X' or 'reverse conversion'. Do you think it's needed ?

I'm sure this has been discussed before, but I still need to speak my mind
I believe a "reverse DNG converter" is not a convenience but a necessity.
I've come to the conclussion, from what I've observed since I use DNG myself, that having this converter would eliminate the two main reasons I find people still have to not use DNG.
The main fear I've observed is that A LOT of people have the impression that Adobe pretends to lure them into a trap, 'slaving' them to an Adobe format instead of their camera format : just a change of master, but remaining a slave just the same. Their reasoning is 'why change, there are no advantages freedom-wise'.
Added to this, a lack of real/full support of the DNG format in software outside of Adobe reinforces that perception: they feel they're forced to use an Adobe product from the day they start using DNG.
The other one is caused by disinformation : Most people believe they lose data in the process of conversion. This is also reinforced because all non-Adobe software fail to read the propietary info, maker notes, inside the DNG file.
A 'DNG-back-to-X' converter would end the discussion instantly. This would not only ensure them that they can go back at any time they wish, no harm done, but they could test if their data is conserved back-and-forth, finally understanding that no data is lost and that the only problem is software companies not fully understanding/supporting DNG.
They reason often given for not having this reverse converter is technical. I believe it can be done ... if Adobe wants to make a point having it done.
I'm no engineer, but I have the perception that though it may be difficult, they main reason for not having it done is that Adobe feels there's not enough benefit from it and their resources are better employed elsewhere.
With this message I just wan't to expose MY reasoning of why Adobe needs to address this.
What is your oppinion on what I've just said ? Do you think it would be a welcome tool ? Do you think it is technically possible to do it ?
Thanks for reading my poor excuse of an analysis

JimHess:
I use DNG because, apart from the normal metadata cuestion, it saves me from having original and (multiple) final versions of the image. All the edit steps and therefore all the version of the image, can be contained within one single file.
It can do that for Lightroom, and it could do that for any other program that chose to save the processing steps inside the DNG file instead of on an internal database. For me it solves a lot of archiving problems.
BUT I need it to succeed, or all the advantages of using it now will turn into headaches in the future when no one apart from Adobe really supports it.
In your answer I find the same 'barrier against DNG spread' problem I'm talking about. DNG is, in each and every aspect, a better format than any propietary RAW file, and the benefits of having to manage just one format are many ... yet you don't find the need to use it as the main filetype in your workflow.
I believe that, if 'de-converting' were as easy and trivial as converting to DNG, you would indistinctly use any of them. Right now, as you said, have to be convinced to use DNG... because it has tradeoffs.
Being able to convert and de-convert would wipe any tradeoffs and need-to-be-convinced.
Greg Barnett :
I obviously enjoy having better noise reduction and lens corrections too. But that can be done with many other tools.
DNG conversion and de-conversion foundations must be done by the 'fathers' of the format. It can't be done by anyone else, and it needs to be done or DNG will lack a solid and trustworthy roots to grow further.
Any doubt about being a wise move to convert to DNG or not must be erradicated in order to be adopted without remorses, and the most important step is, more important than denoising algorithms from my point of view, to tell everyone - you can trust us with your image, we are TRULY open, we won't held your images hostages, you are free using DNG and here's the proof.

Different Colors and Lights during import of a converted DNG

Hi all,
i've recognized a problem if i want to import a DNG file whis was previously converted by the Adobe DNG converter.
I'm using a Pentax Camera which generates PEF-Files of about 10 MB each. I'm using the DNG converter to reduce disk space (the converted ones are only 5 MB included the JPEG preview).
Now i've seen that the pictures doesn't look like the original picture if i import them into lightroom. They are less colorful and 'colder' than the originals. This could be seen directly if i import one file in two formats (PEF, DNG) side by side.
It looks like Lightroom/ACR doesn't recognize the embedded camera profile correctly. After opening the file with the DNG profile editor (from Adobe Labs) it looks correctly and i can see, that the Pentax-Profile is used. But this doesn't do either Lightroom or Photoshop CS 4 with installed ACR.
In a different tool (Capture One), i can see also the differencies and the profile 'DNG default' is unsed. In this tool i'm able to select the camera which is used for taking the picture. If i do this, the colors look correctly as soon as i change it.
Any ideas for this? I bought Lightroom for a lot of money and i don't want to change my tool again.
Thanks

Hi Dave,
yes, thats generally what i want to do.
I have the PEF-Files out of my camera and i convert them with the Adobe DNG converter to the DNG format. The old Pentax K100D is using uncompressed PEF, thats why the pictures are twice the size than the converted DNG
If i import these files for further processing into Lightroom, they are looking similar to the originals viewed with another application (e.g. the pentax development tool) for a second, after that Lightroom is changing the preview to the settings of the Adobe Profile. Colors are much more colder and less colorful. If i try to change the profile in the developement tab, there are no visible changes to the picture.
I've downloaded the DNG Converter and Camera RAW. There are several profiles included, but i don't know how to use them with Lightroom or Photoshop CS4 (with installed ACR).
I've created a screenshot of the differencies so you know what i mean.
Screenshot
On the left side you can see the developed JPEG via PEF out of the Pentax-Software (Silkypix), on the right is the developed JPEG out of the DNG via Lightroom. Both files are without any further changes to the development process.
The left picture corresponds to the original conditions.

Convert DNG twice in lossy format, additional loss of quality?

I've got some DNG that by mistake I converted with embedded raw all spread in my Lightroom catalog.
I want to discharge raw, so as Lightroom doesn't allow to sort files by size (whyyy?), the easier solution is to choose all DNGs and convert them again to DNG unchecking "embed raw".
My question is: will this procedure convert twice my image in lossy format resulting in a additional loss of quality or the already compressed image will be untouched?

I've got some DNG that by mistake I converted with embedded raw all spread in my Lightroom catalog.
I want to discharge raw, so as Lightroom doesn't allow to sort files by size (whyyy?), the easier solution is to choose all DNGs and convert them again to DNG unchecking "embed raw".
My question is: will this procedure convert twice my image in lossy format resulting in a additional loss of quality or the already compressed image will be untouched?

Can photoshop convert .jpg to camera raw file?

Can photoshop convert .jpg to camera raw file?

And even if you could, it wouldn't be worth it. Raw files are 12-bit (or more) with much higher dymanic range than jpegs. The result is that (in the original raw file) you have flexibility to change white balance, change tone curve, recover detail from highlights and shadows in ways you can't with 8-bit (usually lossy-compressed) data in jpegs. But having thrown that extra information away to create a jpeg, you can't get it back. It would technically be possible to convert that jpeg data into raw format, but you would gain nothing by doing so and end up with a file much larger than the jpeg. In fact if this theoretical conversion went the whole way to re-create a Bayer sensor array of data, you'd be throwing away resolution.

I don't want to go back to raw after reopening a photoshop file.

I do all my raw adjustments, I save, then I open in Photoshop, like they told me it'a a good workflow, but for some reasons I always end up reopening
my CS3 files, which brings me back to Raw and I end up refixing that too, all over again. How can I stop a file from reopening in raw and make itr re open in CS3 right away. raw version just prior to 5.5

What type are you saving them as TIF, PSD, JPG, what?
If you're saving as JPG or TIF and they're opening in CR again, there is a setting in Photoshop CS4 / Preferences / Camera RAW... down at the bottom, to Edit all JPG/TIF or Edit already adjusted JPG/TIF or neither. Maybe you have that enabled?

ITunes 11 has converted some songs to Quicktime movie format. How can I convert them back to MPEGs? format

iTunes 11 has converted some songs to Quicktime movie format. How can I convert them back to MPEGs?

I didn't mess with the iTunes Media folder previously, so I don't think that was the cause. Anyway, I manually fixed most of the songs, but I still can't figure out how to fix the movies that became listed as songs.
Here is a screenshot of what it looks like when I click on "Get Info" for one of the movies (which has ended up in the music section on iTunes):
There is no option to change the media kind to "movie" or "video" even though it is a movie and it still plays as a movie if I press play.

How does a user take an iTunes home movie and convert it back to iPhoto(slideshow) for editing and emailing?

How does an user take an iTunes home movie and convert it back to iPhoto(slideshow) for editing and emailing?

iOS: Importing personal photos and videos from iOS devices to your computer
iOS: Unable to import photos or device not recognized as a camera

Can I import word for mac document, edit it, and convert it back to word?

can I import word for mac document, edit it, and convert it back to word?

Yes, with some caveats.
Pages and Word do some things differently, so no guarrantees for anything. Mostly it works fine.
Peter

DNG and Camera Raw 6.1 on Windows 7/64 bit ?

is DNG and Camra Raw availble for Windows 7/64 bit?
There also seems to "codec" that will allow raw files to show up in Windows
as thumbnail images, right?

The Camera Raw 6.1 is available for PSE8/win7(32 or 64 bit). Try downloading from: http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=4728
The camera raw is responsible to read the RAW file formats from various cameras and generates thumbnails for them. The list of cameras supported can also be found at the same link. Follow the instructions to install it in your system for PSE8 (Win/Mac). You dont have to install some additional codecs to fetch these raw files other than the Camera RAW plug-in file update.
Regards.

Converting LAP back to autonomous failed

I've a 1130 AP which doesn't boot it's LWAPP image from flash. So I tried to convert it back (with tftp server and so on) but after the message that it's using the "reset IP" it tries again to start the (corrupt?) image.
Is there a way to stop this boot cycles and to check boot parameter? Or any other ideas?

Hi Guys,
Today, I have converted the Cisco LWAP (1140) to Autonomous AP successfully.
Follow the below steps:
1. Download your 1142 image from Cisco --- I chose c1140-k9w7-tar.124-21a.JY.tar (Autonomous IOS Image for LWAP 1142)
2. Copy your 1142 image to your TFTP folder and start your TFTP server
3. Hook up your console cable and open up PuTTY
4. Plug in your 1142 into your POE/non-PoE (use Power Chord) switch.
5. Create one DHCP Pool in 10.0.0.0/24 network and let the LWAP and Laptop takes the IP from that DHCP Pool.
6. When it boots and your DHCP server gives it an IP address, you'll get a prompt (*your AP needs to get to your TFTP server)
Use PuTTY and enter in the commands in bold and modify the address of your TFTP server and image accordingly.
APd0d0.fdae.aea4> enable
Password: Cisco
APd0d0.fdae.aea4#debug lwapp client no-rel    ###### Very Important command
LWAPP ignore internal reload debugging is on
APd0d0.fdae.aea4#debug capwap console cli   ######## After giving the above one, this particular command will activate.
CAPWAP console CLI allow/disallow debugging is on
APd0d0.fdae.aea4# archive download-sw /overwrite /force-reload tftp://10.0.0.10/c1140-k9w7-tar.124-21a.JY.tar    ######## After giving the above command "debug capwap console cli" then the "ARCHIVE" command will activate
It starts upgrading the new IOS to the LWAP. After installing the IOS, reboot twice the AP and you can normally see the prompt “ap>”
Regards,
Praveen Neti.

When converting an image from raw to jpeg , the jpeg can look flat compared to the original raw image . Is there anything I can do about this ?

When converting an image from raw to jpeg , the jpeg can look flat compared to the original raw image . Is there any way to prevent this ?

Hi Joe , Thank you for your quick response . I am viewing the jpeg in Microsoft Picture Manager and Flickr. It 's not always really noticeable , but for example if I shoot into the light with dew on the grass , the dew glistens in LRoom and I'm happy with the shot but when I convert it to jpeg ,it looks dull. I have changed the setting to sRGB - from Adobe 1998 ,but don't see much difference. Kind regards Alberto.

XLSB file...how do I convert it back to XLSX?

I have a large Excel spreadsheet that has just somehow managed to turn itself into an XLSB file! I have no idea how it happened and can't seem to find a way to convert is back. I tried renaming the extension but it didn't work.
I am using Excel 2008 for Mac 12.3.2 and operating on Mac OS X v.10.7.3.
Can anyone help please?
Carolyn

You would probably be better off asking your question on the forums that MicroSoft provides for their products.
Try here.

Down load converted file back to computer

How do I down load converted files back to my computer

Hi zipperxx
If you are using ExportPDF service you can visit http://www.adobe.com/exportpdf and login with your Adobe id ( Email id registered with
adobe) and password and from there from file section you can download the converted document. Please let me know if you are using other than ExportPDF
service. Also i would like to know workflow you are using.
Regards,
Ajlan Huda.

Convert DNG back to RAW?

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for