Digital Light & Color

Suggestions for the filetype filter in File Open

1. It would be convenient to include *.dng in the list of filetypes.
2. When enabled, filetype RAW should filter out all non-raw filetypes, such as jpg, tif, png, etc. It should only let through the actual raw types such as those from Nikon, Canon, Fuji, Sony, Olympus etc.

There are cases (mostly raw files from very old cameras) where the raw file has a normal extension such as TIF. DNG can be read as a raw file.

Generally I store in the same folder several format images: TIF, jpg, DNG and the original canera raw format ( e.g. NEF, CR3, RAF ... ). The DNGs are for example created by DxO Photolab with optical corrections, the TIF files are used for inter-application communication (e.g. Nik collection invoked from DxO Photolab).

When I select RAW for searching in a Nikon-camera image folder, then all image files including jpg, TIF, show up when in fact I would like to see NEF files only.

Since dng is so common and is promoted as a generic image data container, dng should have a specific entry in the extensions list.

The suggestion is to have an entry for "other RAW formats" -- which would let through original canera raw format ( e.g. NEF, CR3, RAF ... ). This filter would exclude TIF and DNG since these two would have their own entry in the list of filters.