you mean, pentax did the right thing by tranfering their expenses (software development) on customers (storage).
then again, by the same logic, they should have used 32 bit files. just in case :) best, mishka On Sun, 14 Nov 2004 18:00:51 -0500 (EST), John Francis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Unlike most (or at least most who express an opinion) on this list, > I think Pentax did the right thing with their PEF fle format. > When the 14-bit sensors come out, Pentax won't have to change their > format. They can also use standard software libraries to read and > write their image files - a PEF file is actually just a very thinly > disguised TIFF file. That's going to make it really easy for any > future versions of Photo Laboratory and suchlike to handle both the > existing 12-bit and any future 14-bit (or even 16-bit) files.
