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Participant
Aug 17, 2026 4:25 PM UTC
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P: DNG Converter: Option to turn off conversion of JPEGs

See also my question in this community. I do usually have my cameras set to always save a raw and a jpeg file, with the same basename. Recent versions of DNG Converter convert both into DNG files. I don’t need dngs of JPEGs and this means I need to take extra steps to avoid that. 

There should be an option to disable that and I think that not having DNGs of JPEGs should be the default setting.

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    Participant
    Oct 28, 2026 8:59 AM UTC

    Same problem. Using Adobe DNG converter now became very stressfull, if someone shoots in RAW+JPG it has to do like 3 passages more, this does not make sense. It could be very simple to solve this with a button to flag, it already exist in Adobe Lightroom Classic, when you’re going to convert your catalogue in DNG with Lightroom you can choose “Convert only RAW files”. 
    I really don’t understand why they did this update without thinking about a button to flag.

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    Participant
    Aug 29, 2026 8:56 AM UTC

    Same problem here. The problem started with some 18.5.x version and is also still a problem with the newer18.6. version.
    Switching back to an old version is bad because I bought some newer lenses.

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    Erik Bloodaxe
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    Aug 17, 2026 6:11 PM UTC

    The simplest solution is to keep Raw and JPEG files in separate folders. I go as far as keeping them on separate drives. It is not possible to "convert" JPEG files into DNG files since they are obviously not Raw files. You can wrap them in a DNG container file but they remain JPEG files. Most will argue that this serves no purpose.

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    Participant
    Aug 17, 2026 6:29 PM UTC

    That would mean reorganizing my repository of many years… Definitely no option!

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