{"id":64,"date":"2006-11-15T16:26:51","date_gmt":"2006-11-15T21:26:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tom.hise.org\/blog\/?p=64"},"modified":"2006-11-15T16:26:51","modified_gmt":"2006-11-15T21:26:51","slug":"progress-with-the-d80","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tom.hise.org\/blog\/?p=64","title":{"rendered":"New with the D80"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Warning! This is a geeky post. Warning!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When I got my new camera a few weeks ago, one of the things I lamented was that Nikon did not make a D80 RAW converter plugin that works in (the older) PhotoShop CS.  They make one for CS2, but to upgrade would cost me $150 !  So I just resigned myself to shooting .JPG files and putting up with the loss of quality.  <\/p>\n<p>Today I discovered that if I download the Adobe Camera Raw plugin for CS2, I would also get a stand-alone program that converts D80 RAW files to <em>DNG<\/em> (Digital NeGative) files.  DNG is a sort of &#8220;universal RAW&#8221; format so it doesn&#8217;t sacrifice any of the benefits of camera RAW plus (Tah-Dah) my version of photoshop can read <em>those <\/em>files. <\/p>\n<p>So now I can embark on exploring the joys of shooting pictures without the loss of quality that JPEG compression causes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>End geek warning! As you were.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Warning! This is a geeky post. Warning! When I got my new camera a few weeks ago, one of the things I lamented was that Nikon did not make a D80 RAW converter plugin that works in (the older) PhotoShop CS. They make one for CS2, but to upgrade would cost me $150 ! So [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tom.hise.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tom.hise.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tom.hise.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tom.hise.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tom.hise.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tom.hise.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tom.hise.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tom.hise.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tom.hise.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}