I agree with Paul here: archive the PEF files, for sure. They are the
original data.
Absolutely... no question of compatibility, everything is there,
etc. If storage space is an issue, one thing to consider would be a
lossless compression, though. Pentax's brain-dead, no-compression RAW
files (*especially* bad on the -D) are bigger than they need to be.
Zipping each file would help. On my -DS files, they only tended to
compress to 80%-90% of the original (even with bzip2 -9), so I haven't
bothered. With all the zeros in a -D file, it might do better.
I would think that a lossless compression *intended* for RAW
images would be a good thing. Something like FLAC or APE for music. I
have yet to find one, though.
-Cory
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* Cory Papenfuss *
* Electrical Engineering candidate Ph.D. graduate student *
* Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University *
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