Digital Negative (DNG) is a file format first introduced by Adobe in 2004 as a universal format for the RAW image files generated by digital cameras. A raw image file contains minimally processed data from the image sensor of a digital camera or image scanner. Raw files are so named because they are not yet processed and ready to be used with a bitmap graphics editor or printed. In short, a RAW image is the result of the first impression the light sets on the camera’s sensor, without altering it in any way, so that you can adjust all the variables freely (color, light, saturation, contrast, noise, sharpness etc).

Up until now, only high end digital camera manufacturers provided an option to capture photos directly in the DNG RAW image. But now, you can do the same from a Nokia S6 3rd Edition mobile device using Tea Vui Huang’s free DNG Phone Camera software.

DNG Phone Camera is designed for Nokia phones minimally supporting CLDC 1.0, MIDP 2.0, JSR 135 (Mobile Media) and JSR 75. The DNG images will be saved to the “Images” folder of the microSD card using the default Nokia image file naming format. DNG is supported by Adobe Photoshop CS2, Photoshop CS, Photoshop Elements 3.0/4.0 and DNG Converter software. DNG raw files must first be processed before it can be used to generate a final JPEG or TIFF image.

Click here to download DNG Phone Camera from your mobile phone browser.