Sorry for the smart ass comment first mark, but that is good to know.
I have used the Pentax browser/Lab software to do the batch Jpegs as you have
mentioned,
so i can
get aslide show going for family and fun. I have never checked to see that that
data had
been
transfered.
I just recetnly fiqured out how to make low res jpegs by clicking the jpeg
thumbnail.
D'oh.
Thanks
Dave
> I've been very conflicted with regards to the
Adobe DNG "universal RAW
> format". I've always liked a lot about it and after reading Bruce
> Fraser's "Camera RAW for the Real World" I *really* like it and want
> to adopt it for all my archiving. But I hate to lose the EXIF
> information that it throws away, specifically the information on the
> lens used for each shot.
>
> So I was recently delighted to notice that if I use Camera RAW to
> convert PEF image into a JPEG in Photoshop, the resulting JPEG
> contains all the original EXIF data, including lens type. And CAMERA
> RAW will do batch conversions. Hooray! Problem solved! I just batch
> convert to small, low quality JPEGS and I've got ready-made thumbnails
> with all my EXIF data! Then I can run the DNG batch converter and
> ditch the PEF files. But noooooo... If you *batch* convert with Camera
> RAW it seems you don't get the lens type EXIF data that's retained
> when you convert one at a time. <Insert sound of head being smacked
> repeatedly against a wall.>
>
> Then I thought of having a look at the Pentax Browser to see if it
> might batch convert to JPEG thumbnails, assuming that *it* would
> retain all the EXIF data. Got something even better: Pentax Browser
> will export just the EXIF data from all the images and put it into a
> comma-delimited text file! Yes, it will also do the
> small-JPEG-conversion-while-retaining-EXIF that I had hoped for, but
> saving just the text data is vastly quicker and results in much less
> extra data to store.
>
> Now what I really don't need is for someone to explain to me a much
> simpler way I could have been doing this all along...
> ;-)
>
>
