Unfortunately the marketing people figure (probably quite correctly)
that 98% of their customers have no interest in RAW files whatsoever. So
I guess we are lucky the did not leave that feature out entirely.
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Cory Papenfuss wrote:
True, but probably Pentax firmware uses this embedded JPEG data for
the image previews, and *not* the raw data (just because this way the
same algorithm can be used to display both RAW and JPEG pictures). The
fact that even the histograms seem to be based on the JPEG data is
quite significant. There's probably a fast harware-assisted JPEG
compression engine, so the whole firmware heavily relies on JPEG data
for all operations. RAW output is just an extra in the data fow then.
Using JPEG can even make zooming in/out during preview much easier and
faster.
Yep... but it's an awful high price to pay for a feature that is
often not used. I'd rather have slower zoom in/out on preview (that I
rarely use) than wast 15% storage on a low-quality JPEG.
To each their own, I guess. Sucks to be an engineer...
-Cory
