I routinely make a DNG copy of my PEF's to CD, and I haven't been able to detect any loss of quality as a result. The advantage of a 2030% reduction in storage requirements seems significant to me! The converter from Adobe will do the whole lot for you quite automatically, but it is important to check the parameters for file-naming and destination to ensure that you get he results you want.
HTH John Coyle Brisbane, Australia ----- Original Message ----- From: "Boris Liberman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, September 18, 2006 9:09 PM Subject: To (convert to) DNG or not to DNG > Hi! > > It seems that DNG format is gaining proper support by Pentax (K10D)... > I read on the list that DNG essentially retains *all* goods of > original PEF but DNG is losslessly compressed (less space) and less > proprietary. > > A question to you, digital pundits, should I mass convert my PEFs to > DNGs for archival or should I retain the PEFs? To accentuate my > question a little - I would want to keep only one "flavor" - either > PEF or DNG but *not* both. > > In particular, is there anything that is terminally lost in PEF to DNG > conversion> > > Thanks. > > -- > Boris > > -- > 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
