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Gunther Wegner
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December 22, 2014
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P: DNG Converter: Enable JPG conversion

Lightroom is capable to convert JPGs into DNG. The DNG Converter unfortunately currently is not. Please add JPG support to the Adobe DNG Converter. Thank you very much for considering!

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Inspiring
December 8, 2020

Adobe, please add support for JPG to the DNG converter. Thank you.

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Gunther Wegner
Known Participant
September 10, 2020
We are well aware of this. I need it for LRTimelapse because of the way DNG files are designed.
This feature is already implemented in Lightroom itself (you can convert / wrap a JPG sequence to into DNG containers in Lightroom) that's why I'm asking to please allow this in the DNG Converter itself also.
It would tremendously help many timelapse photographers.
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Rob_Cullen
Community Expert
Community Expert
September 10, 2020
You cannot make a "silk purse from a sow's ear" as the saying goes.
TBMK Placing (converting) a JPG file in the DNG 'wrapper' does nothing to make it more accessible or more useful to image editors. It is still a JPG RGB file!
(Except for Lr-Mobile users that can 'extract' develop adjustments and create Dev Presets from a DNG.)
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Regards. My System: Windows-11, Lightroom-Classic 15.4.1, Photoshop 27.8, ACR 18.4, Lightroom 9.4, Lr-iOS 10.4.0, Bridge 16.0.3 .
Inspiring
September 9, 2020
Joining the call for this to be implemented. Thanks.
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Participating Frequently
August 1, 2019
I don't think myself or others are trying to just complain. I do think David raises a good point. Gunther, what do you think about Davids suggestion?

Thanks guys!
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Participating Frequently
August 1, 2019
Thank you Andrew!
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TheDigitalDog
Inspiring
August 1, 2019
I think some people enjoy complaining almost as much as they enjoy doing nothing about it. 😉
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Author “Color Management for Photographers" & "Photoshop CC Color Management/pluralsight"
Legend
August 1, 2019
DNG is an open standard, a variant of TIFF which is also open. I don't understand why the people wanting this can't hire a developer or pay someone like the ImageMagik developers to add this capability.
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Inspiring
July 31, 2019
Yes please
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TheDigitalDog
Inspiring
July 29, 2019
>>1Things and needs change over time and there is a valid need for the DNG Converter to convert jpg's and tiffs.<<

Why? The purpose is to convert proprietary raws to DNG for free, so users can access those DNG's in older versions of Adobe software. 

READ:
https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/adobe-dng-converter.html
The Adobe DNG Converter enables you to easily convert camera-specific raw files from supported cameras to a more universal DNG raw file. Another benefit of using the DNG Converter is backward compatibility.

YOU want to convert JPEG's to DNG (and there's hardly any reason to do so), there are two products from Adobe that do that and have for years and years. 
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Author “Color Management for Photographers" &amp; "Photoshop CC Color Management/pluralsight"