I ALMOST FORGOT! Pentax FINALLY responded to my request for information about the PIM compatibility of the D: "Mr. Waters:
Thank you for contacting PENTAX USA, Inc. We are sorry for the response delay. The IST D is not Epson PIM compatible, but it does support EXIF 2.2, which is a large subset of the Epson PIM instruction set. I personally prefer Epson printers, and have found my output to be very beautiful. We hope this information is useful to you. If you have any additional questions, comments, or concerns, please feel free to write or contact our Dealer & Consumer Services department at 800-877-0155." Interesting since reading the FM says otherwise. Cory Waters ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bill Owens" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, November 10, 2003 1:42 PM Subject: Re: And now: the *ist D vs. the EOS 300D! > I find ***L jpeg to be more than enough for my use, and I don't use the > Pentax software. I import directly into Photoshop via PIM. > > Bill > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Monday, November 10, 2003 1:25 PM > Subject: Re: And now: the *ist D vs. the EOS 300D! > > > > >Also, many thanks to Ruediger Neumann for the link to the German page > > discussing Genzo RAW utility. > > At the end, the main problem with image quality of the *ist D truly looks > to > > be the bad RAW-JPEG conversion done by the Pentax software. If you do a > good > > conversion, the pictures have nothing to envy to Canon's SLR's (and > surpass > > them well at higher ISO settings). > > > > >Cheers, > > > > >Dario Bonazza > > > > Now this is v-e-r-y interesting. > > > > Pentax is shooting itself in its own foot with its software. > > > > Marnie :-) > > > > > > --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.536 / Virus Database: 331 - Release Date: 11/6/2003
