Digital Negative Format (DNG) 1.7
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The Digital Negative (DNG) specification describes a non-proprietary file format for storing camera raw files that can be used by a wide range of hardware and software vendors. DNG is an extension of the TIFF format, and is compatible with the TIFF-EP standard. This version was published in May 2023.
Identify it
| Extensions | .dng |
|---|---|
| MIME types | image/dng |
| Signatures | 49492a00 at byte 0 (DNG 1.7 (Little Endian, BOF))4d4d002a at byte 0 (DNG 1.7 (Big Endian, BOF)) |
| PRONOM | fmt/1943 |
| Wikidata | Q123686339 |
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Open it
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- libexiv2Open source
- AbydosOpen source
- ConverseenOpen source
- dcrawOpen source
- ExifToolOpen source
- F-SpotOpen source
- GIMPOpen source
- ImageMagickOpen source
- ImageMagick (WebAssembly)Open source
- KritaOpen source
- LibRawOpen source
- PhotoRecOpen source
- Q141647660Open source
- UFRawOpen source
And 33 more in the JSON record.
Convert it
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| To | With | Fidelity | Command and losses |
|---|---|---|---|
| Portable Network Graphics | ImageMagick | Lossless | convert in.dng out.pngPixels kept; some metadata, colour profiles or layers may be dropped. |
| Tagged Image File Format | ImageMagick | Lossless | convert in.dng out.tifPixels kept; some metadata, colour profiles or layers may be dropped. |
| AV1 Image File Format | ImageMagick (WebAssembly) | Partial | in browser Demosaiced with default settings: raw sensor data and editing latitude are lost. |
| GIF 89a | ImageMagick (WebAssembly) | Partial | in browser Demosaiced with default settings: raw sensor data and editing latitude are lost. |
| Icon file format | ImageMagick (WebAssembly) | Partial | in browser Demosaiced with default settings: raw sensor data and editing latitude are lost. |
| JPEG File Interchange Format 1.02 | ImageMagick (WebAssembly) | Partial | in browser Demosaiced with default settings: raw sensor data and editing latitude are lost. |
| JPEG XL | ImageMagick (WebAssembly) | Partial | in browser Demosaiced with default settings: raw sensor data and editing latitude are lost. |
| ImageMagick (WebAssembly) | Partial | in browser Demosaiced with default settings: raw sensor data and editing latitude are lost. | |
| Portable Network Graphics | ImageMagick (WebAssembly) | Partial | in browser Demosaiced with default settings: raw sensor data and editing latitude are lost. |
| Quite OK Image Format | ImageMagick (WebAssembly) | Partial | in browser Demosaiced with default settings: raw sensor data and editing latitude are lost. |
| Tagged Image File Format | ImageMagick (WebAssembly) | Partial | in browser Demosaiced with default settings: raw sensor data and editing latitude are lost. |
| WebP | ImageMagick (WebAssembly) | Partial | in browser Demosaiced with default settings: raw sensor data and editing latitude are lost. |
| Windows Bitmap 5.0 | ImageMagick (WebAssembly) | Partial | in browser Demosaiced with default settings: raw sensor data and editing latitude are lost. |
| GIF 89a | ImageMagick | Lossy | convert in.dng out.gifReduced to 256 colours. |
| JPEG File Interchange Format 1.02 | ImageMagick | Lossy | convert in.dng out.jpgLossy compression. |
| WebP | ImageMagick | Lossy | convert in.dng out.webpLossy compression. |
Sources
From PRONOM, Wikidata. Updated 2026-10-20.