Thank you Paul. My hope is that my system is up for the task. What I can do to find an answer before actually buyibg the camera is to compare with converting PEF's. Judging from your answer this test would give me a pretty good idea.
Tim Mostly harmless (just plain Norwegian) -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Stenquist Sent: 17. desember 2006 00:56 To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: Dinged by DNG in the K10D? (going a bit OT) Using PSCS ACR, I see no apparent difference in processing time for the K10 DNG files vs. The *istD PEF files. I'm sure there IS a difference, but it's too slight to notice. Paul On Dec 16, 2006, at 6:08 PM, Jostein Øksne wrote: > Tim Øsleby wrote: >> Kind of OT, but I'll ask this in this thread. >> >> Does the size of the files affect the speed of raw conversion? > > Yes. :-) > >> In other words. If my system is up to the task now, is it any >> chance I will >> have to upgrade the computer to handle the files? > > There's a chance you may _want_ to :-) > > Larger files will always have _some_ penalty in processing time. > >> I understand that it is impossible to give an accurate answer to >> this. > > True. For the time being, the software I used for handling raw files > doesn't work with the new files from K10D. Without using the same SW, > it's very hard to tell how much the hardware influence the equation. > One suggestion though, is that you consider expanding the RAM if you > have less than 1 Gb. > > Jostein > > -- > 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 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
