Matthew Tippett mused: > > Thanks for the credit :) Thanks for the file. If you'd care to convert it to a JPG, (lowest quality is fine) and email me that as well, I'd appreciate it. > As a Linux user, please forward any discoveries or tweaks to the guys > who develop some of the Linux tools. > > http://www.cybercom.net/~dcoffin/dcraw/
I'm aware of dcraw. But I'm not at all satisfied with the colour balance you get from running Pentax raw files through it. This was one of the reasons why I decided to perform my own experiments. At present I'm concentrating rather more on DNG. That provides a better interface between manufacturer-specific proprietary file formats and other conversion software. I may well end up producing a PEF-to-DNG converter (platform neutral, so it would run on Linux as well as Windows) which would optionally apply the same sort of colour pre-processing Pentax seem to do; my goal would be a DNG file which, when fed into something like Adobe PhotoShop Elements, produces a JPEG file which has the same colour balance as one produced by the otherwise-not-very-good software supplied by Pentax (and, more importantly, by the firmware in the camera). > BTW, I tried the remote assistant from the *istD, and although it would > trigger the shutter and get the 'LCD settings' from the camera. I > assume that they will be updating the application some time in the future. Don't count on it. The Photo Browser manual shipped with the *ist-DS refers to the remote assistant, but specifically calls out the fact that this is a *ist-D product. I'm not sure it's ever intended to work with the *ist-DS
