Indeed, a correctly implemented DNG with a full size hi-res embedded JPEG would be best.
I use iView for archiving and it also uses the embedded full size JPEG within DNG which, if you colour profile and correct in ACR within browser and save as DNG, rather than the stand alone converter, that will give you pretty accurate and fast renditions of all your archived material from within it's own databases, even if the origianl file is off-line. iView doesn't seem as "at home" with the PEF embedded JPEG's. I'm an advocate of DNG as a standard native format for many reasons. Richard -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Francis Sent: 17 August 2006 17:15 To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: Holy Crap -- Pentax 10MP body On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 12:31:35PM +0100, Richard Day wrote: > Raw rules! > > But in addition to PEF (if they insist on keeping it), please > implement compressed DNG properly with full sized embedded JPEG > "in-camera" as an option. PEF, of course, already includes a full sized embedded JPEG "in-camera". Unfortunately it's done at the lowest JPEG quality, so it's not useful for much more than the preview (in-camera on the LCD, and also in the Pentax Photo Browser) for which it was presumably included. I've long wanted control over the quality of that JPEG - if I'm shooting raw I'm not going to complain about the difference between a 3MB JPEG that's quite usable for many purposes and a 1.5MB JPEG of no use to me. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
