Godfrey, I don't know what version Mark Erickson is using. Not everybody updates versions every time the new one comes out. So, if he were using 3.0, or Photoshop CS that comes with 2.x version, he might have wrong assumptions based on the response that no information is lost. That's why I made a clarification which is essentially similar to what you wrote below: "My comment is with respect to the latest version.".
Best, Igor Thu, 04 May 2006 10:43:17 -0700 Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: What point is there in considering versions of DNG Converter and Camera Raw which have been superceded, if you are thinking of moving to DNG format now/in the future? That's like saying, "I'd like to consider one of the new IBM ThinkPads, but ya know the IBM PC/AT had a rather bad reliability record." The latest, *current* version of DNG Converter and Camera Raw, right now, is v3.3. My comment is with respect to the latest version. Camera Raw and DNG Converter v3.1 (delivered approximately 10 months ago, just after the arrival of Photoshop CS2) corrected the omission of private makernotes data in DNG files made with prior versions. Since the only software that ever actually used this data was the Pentax Lab and Browser, which are usually regarded as dismal bits&bytes anyway, the omission was trivial anyway, but it has been corrected. Godfrey On May 4, 2006, at 9:47 AM, Igor Roshchin wrote: I didn't check it myself, but I remember reading that this is correct only for the most recent RAW-DNG PS-CS2 converter (3.3) but was not the case for the earlier versions. I am not sure in which version it was corrected (3.2 or 3.3). Easy: none. I think that this has been beaten to death already, but can someone who knows summarize exactly what metadata gets lost when a files is converted from Pentax Raw to Adobe DNG?
