Adobe announced the Specification in 2004.

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References

• Adobe Systems news release (September 27, 2004). "Adobe Unifies Raw Photo Formats with Introduction of Digital Negative Specification: Free Converter Tool Kick Starts New Digital Negative File Format by Translating Raw Formats into Easy-to-Use, Archive-Ready Files"
• Adobe Systems (2004). Digital Negative Specification v. 1.0.0.0

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Press

• Publish Magazine (March 15, 2005) "Adobe Pushes DNG Image Format"

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Cameras which support DNG

• Leica's Digital-Modul-R for the R8 or R9 natively supports the DNG format.
• Hasselblad also supports DNG, but only as an output format via software on their V96C digital Back for the 503CW camera body.