I'm not entirely sure why this is of such interest. The only thing that is important if you're not using a Pentax lens is that the camera understands what the focal length and aperture information of the lens in use is. Only Pentax lenses have the additional MTF data in the chip that is needed to drive the MTF program line option.
Whether the camera packages the lens name into the DNG file or not is irrelevant if you are looking at it with Adobe Camera Raw or Bridge or Lightroom because Adobe's software does nothing with that data, and doesn't interpret it either from the K10D DNGs or the *ist DS, PEF or DNG formats. It doesn't show it from a JPEG either from either camera. I can't quite imagine what Pentax Photo Lab might do with it either, to be honest. Godfrey On Dec 28, 2006, at 9:25 PM, Boris Liberman wrote: > Well, George, I hear what you're saying. I just installed Pentax > Software from the CD that came with the camera. None of my DNG files > displays the lens name in the browser. It displays "-- --" sign > obviously meaning that it wasn't recorded. > > I may have to shoot some PEFs just because so that I could see if my > Tamron and K10D are talking between themselves the same language. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
