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OpenRAW was an initiative to raise awareness of a serious problem with top-end digital photography and to help solve that problem. The problem concerns long-term access and viewing of the raw images often used by professional and experienced amateur photographers. OpenRAW's solution (also their motto) was "Digital Image Preservation Through Open Documentation". This initiative was primarily an international (non-political) advocacy and lobby activity directed at companies making digital cameras and those developing software to support those cameras. It also had the aim of raising awareness of the problem among photographers. Its resources included a website with a discussion forum,〔 and many registered supporters, including individuals, companies, and professional organizations. == Formation == Early in 2005, Juergen Specht〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Juergen Specht - Photographs: Photos by a German Photographer living in Tokyo, Japan )〕 and the members of his mailing list D1scussion began to identify concerns about the difficulties associated with the proprietary RAW files introduced by camera makers. The background to these concerns, described at Raw image format (Drawbacks), Digital Negative (Objectives), and dcraw (Motivation), is that the photographs from top-end digital cameras are often contained within files whose specifications are formally known only to the camera manufacturers. Not only does this require extra software development by many companies after the launch of most new camera models, but there is a major risk that future software products will not be able to render photographs from decades earlier. As the seriousness of the issue was quickly realized, this team founded an initiative called OpenRAW, with the goal of encouraging image preservation and ensuring that the creators of the images retained the choice of how their images are processed.〔 OpenRAW was launched worldwide via a press release〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= For Immediate Release — OpenRAW Web Site Launched )〕 on 25 April 2005. There were positive reactions worldwide: for example at DPReview; many others in English;〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Image Preservation Through Open Documentation )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Photographers ask camera makers to open up )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Photographers ask camera makers to open up )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= OpenRAW Web Site Launched )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= An open standard for the camera RAW format has just launched. )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Leave Your Wife, Sign Up For OpenRAW )〕 some in German;〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= OpenRAW: Fotografen aller Länder, vereinigt Euch! )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= OpenRAW fordert offengelegte RAW-Spezifikationen )〕 and in Japanese.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= OpenRAW (as a GIF) )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「OpenRAW」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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