Well I can be useful. I do not take much photographs (mostly time constraints) and I do not always (specially months later) remember which lens I used. I'd be happy to know for sure. Of course, it 's not a big issue, but still helps me to identify potential performance problems.
2006/12/29, Godfrey DiGiorgi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 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 > -- Thibault Massart aka Thibouille ---------------------- *ist-D,Z1,SuperA,KX,MX, P30t and KR-10x ;) ... -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
