On Fri, Dec 29, 2006 at 07:25:51AM +0200, Boris Liberman wrote: > Hi! > > 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 don't think that's at all obvious. I suspect that although the software knows enough about Pentax MakerNote IFDs as found in PEFs and JPEGS it doesn't understand how to reconstruct a MakerNote from the contents of the DNGPrivateData tag, which is what is in DNGs. I've poked around a little inside a K10D DNG file, and there is a DNGPrivateData tag in the main IFD, which is more than long enough to contain the MakerNote data (and the extra JPEG thumbnail) from the JPEG produced at the same time using the RAW+JPEG option. I haven't yet examined the DNGPrivateData in any detail, but when I do I fully expect to find the same two-byte lens ID that is in the MakerNote. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
