> > 2) only Adobe reads the RAW image and interpolates to the monitor with the > correct color normalization. the Pentax software reads the preview JPEG. > everyone else seems to not apply the camera-specific normalization.
I'm not sure even Adobe is doing that. I believe the photoshop code is using Dave Coffin's dcraw program, and the last time I looked that didn't read the settings from the RAW file, but just applied auto-white-balance. (It also uses a Bayer interpolation algorithm I'm not all that fond of)
