Rob Studdert mused: > > On 22 Jan 2005 at 13:25, Derby Chang wrote: > > > I have two questions though. In the file browser, the PEF images are all > > listed as RGB (untagged), even though I have Adobe RGB set in the custom > > settings. The Pentax Browser shows the PEFs correctly. Bug in the Adobe CR? > > Hi D, > > The Pentax RAW files are colour space less, the Adobe RGB flag is used to > indicate the camera setting but will be superseded by your colour space > selection in PS CS camera RAW. > > > And second question...the *istDS Image Tone option has Bright or Natural > > as the two options. What exactly is the setting doing? At a guess it > > sounds like the Bright mode applies extra contrast, brightness, and > > sharpness. But there are already sharpness and contrast settings. And > > this setting shouldn't affect the actual recorded RAW image though, > > should it? > > I suspect they are enhancements for in camera processing only. > > Cheers,
I suspect you are wrong. The *ist-D stores a tone curve in a raw PEF The *ist-D seems to store two different curves; I assume these correspond to the "natural" and "bright" settings. I'd also assume Photo Laboratory makes use of them (although I doubt if any non-Pentax software does).
