Hi! > Hi all > > Possibly a silly question - and maybe this has been discussed before and I > missed it. > > I thought I'd look at the advantages of converting RAW files to DNG for > storage. The RAW file used for testing has a size of 10,584,081 bytes > > Converting using Pentax Photo Browser 3 produced a DNG file of 12,409,088 > bytes. > > Hmmm.... I thought. > > So I fired up Adobe's DNG converter and produced a DNG file of 5,670,300 > bytes from the same RAW file. > > So, what's in the Pentax converted file that makes it almost double the size > of the Adobe version? > > I also noticed that Pentax Photo Lab 3 won't load DNG files, which seems odd. > Perhaps that will come in the version of Photo Lab released with the K10D.
Brian, it has been reported that Pentax Photo Lab creates *uncompressed* DNG files. Your Adobe DNG Converter has same option. I suggest you compare the side of *uncompressed* DNG file created by Adobe DNG Converter with that of the file you obtained with Pentax software. HTH. Boris -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
