As others, and particularly John Francis' note, have asserted, the
current DNG Converter v3.2 stores all aspects of the PEF file into
the DNG container format. It also stores ACR settings, when made,
into the container format as well as metadata additions, meaning you
never have to worry about keeping your sidecar files around once
you've done conversions.
If you read my archiving workflow description a day or two back,
you'll see that my decision for the present has been to use the PEFs
as an archive repository, but do all work on the DNGs and archive
both. While this is redundant, it's a very secure way to operate. At
some point, however, I'll become annoyed at having all these PEF
files consuming space and I'll likely discard them. I never touch
them again once I've converted them to DNG format.
BTW: Not that I'm against keeping it, but I have yet to find a single
use for the Pentax private makernotes data. I don't use any of the
Pentax supplied software at all, and I know what lenses took what
images from the focal lengths included in the standard metadata.
I have DNG Converter set up to keep raw image, don't embed original,
full size previews, compressed lossless. Works for me...
Godfrey
On Jan 5, 2006, at 12:31 PM, Albano Garcia wrote:
Hi gang,
I'm thinking in converting my raw files to dng 3.2,
using these settings: keep raw image, don't embed
original, compressed lossless.
I'm thinking in keeping just the dngs, to save space,
since they weight almost half than raws, and I think
they'll be more age-surviving as a format.
Do you think I should keep the originals files too?
There's room for improvement in the dng format?
Insights welcome
Albano Garcia
Photography & Graphic Design
http://www.albanogarcia.com.ar
http://www.flaneur.com.ar
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