On 1 Feb 2005 at 12:52, Peter Loveday wrote: > Yes, indeed. > > Canon raw files are compressed (though not amazingly well). > > Pentax raw files are not only not compressed, they're padded to 16 bit :( > > It is one of my single biggest annoyances with the *istD. It _should_ be > able to get near on twice the amount of raws on a card. Hell, even with no > compression, they should be 3/4 of the size...
There are plenty of references to this problem in the archives, this is one of the issues that as been at least partly addressed in the *ist DS. And Godfrey if you think the *ist DS image buffer is too shallow and slow try a *ist D :-( Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.ozemail.com.au/~distudio/publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998
