Check your settings for Adobe DNG. You can create files that are compressed or not, files that contain JPEG's or not, and files that contain the original RAW file. An uncompressed Adobe DNG containing a med sized JPEG will result in a file about the same size as the ones you got from the Pentax browser.
Shel > [Original Message] > From: Brian Walters < > 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? -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
