Andrei Herasimchuk says:
Some notes to consider. (For a bit of history, I was working on product research for what became Adobe Lightroom while in the heyday of doing Design by Fire.)
1. Glad to see everyone picking up RAW. However, there is a very critical issue everyone needs to concern themselves with, and that is the propietary nature of the file format itself of the various camera. Please see:
http://www.adobe.com/products/dng/index.html