Mark Roberts wrote: > > I could shoot PEF with a K10D and then go through the batch conversion > process to create compressed DNG files. > > Or I could shoot uncompressed DNG with the K10D... and then go through > the batch conversion process to create compressed DNG files. > > Either way involves the batch conversion process, which can be time > consuming. If the K10D shot *compressed* DNG then I'd be able to skip > the entire batch process. This is what I was hoping for.
I think I understand - you want to archive your files in compressed DNG format, and having compressed DNG's would be an obvious advantage WRT images per gigabyte of SD card storage space. I'll confess to being a bit of a caveman in that I never heard of DNG till today. One thing that has always worried me is archiving files in a proprietary format - like PEF - that may not be accessible in the future if software support for them stops. I assume that in the future DNG will be a more widely accessible standard than proprietary RAW standards like PEF (and not to pick on Pentax - like propriety RAW standards for other brands as well.) I've been betting on TIFF as a durable standard and take a chaotic approach to archiving, archiving TIFF and PEF and re-archiving my actual print TIFFs images each time I pull them out and re-use them for a new project. It's not efficient for storage space and its not orderly for organization, but I figure that at the end of the day I have more copies of my most used images and therefore a greater likelihood of them surviving the occasional bad media, and the greater likelihood of me finding a copy of them when I need them. When I switched from CD's to DVD's for archiving, this strategy also resulted in virtually all of my significant images being moved from one format to the other in a few months. I may look into adding DNG images into the mix - I have a separate PC that is dedicated to scanning and burning DVD's and other scut work, so time is not a problem. I do spend more on DVD's (and future storage media) but since I'm deliberately using redundancy and inefficiency as the backbone of my archiving system, I can't complain about that. I'm just happy that I'll be able to pull the K10D RAW files into Photoshop and use the RAW converter. Later - MCC -- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Mark Cassino Photography Kalamazoo www.markcassino.com - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
