The camera companies think they have some sort of leverage so they refuse to adhere to any standards. Why? cause they can, photographers seem willing to let them off the hook.
Proprietary raw file formats help zero photographers except those people who seem to hate Adobe. An open and publicly documented raw file format would help the photographic industry. So, why hasn't this happened?
Ask yourself this question...who in this thread is advocating photographer's rights and who is advocating camera company right's? Then, ask yourself why...
Well stated! It's amazing the amount of effort so called
photographers make in defending this practice you pointed out above.
As to those stating it will cost money,
yes, it will. Very little in the grand scheme of the entire new camera system. Every time a Nikon or Canon engineer has to take a leak and then wash his hands, it cost the company money. So what? We're not asking for some 3D OLED wide gamut removable LCD for the camera! We're asking for a raw file that behaves like the last camera system such
any raw converter can understand it and provide us our image data! Why is it that every new camera system has a new raw file that has to be updated? And yet we hear
"these raw files are all very similar with tiny differences from model to model from one manufacturer". If true, can you blame some for wondering about conspiracies? Either output the same damn file format (like we see with the JPEG) or provide a switch for DNG (the hard and expensive work is done, by Adobe). Add another $15 to the price of the camera, no one will know why or care, the silly debate (FUD) will cease and we photographers will have full access to our image data!
To argue otherwise is a disservice to the photography industry but it's great for the camera making industry.