Two words: Adobe Lightroom. Public Beta, free for the next few months, supports Pentax PEF files natively with no conversion needed which is a far better way to edit the file anyway.
Three more words: Adobe Photoshop CS3. Public Beta, goes up to the release if you have CS2, 30 days if you don't. Also supports Pentax PEF files natively with no conversion. I did all my Christmas photos from my K110D using a Lightroom workflow and was amazed at how easy and what an actual *joy* it was to edit the photos. Sounds like about 1/10th of the work you're doing right now with converters and hacking files. Photos that needed more intense work than Lightroom could provide got sent over to Photoshop to be worked on and then seamlessly returned edited to the Lightroom workflow. When I was done it did a batch job from Lightroom resizing and converting to JPEG for me to upload to Flickr. All of my originals are preserved unaltered and unconverted, any conversions done in Lightroom are done so non-destructively and are completely reversible including reverting back to the original. The only thing close to this kind of functionality is Apple Aperture but I've been so pleased with Lightroom I don't think I'm going to go that route, may grab the demo and give it a try. In fact, it looks like Adobe bought out Pixmantec and they apparently had a lot of input on the development of Lightroom: http:// www.pixmantec.com/newsletter/19/index.html --Guy On Jan 4, 2007, at 4:11 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Pancho Hasselbach wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I've got a new K100D. >> I installed the sillypix software on my PC. >> It's a real PITA. >> >> I asked myself why RSE (which I really like and got accostumed to) >> does >> not support K100D files, and searching the list I came across a >> thread, >> where Gonz wrote this post: >> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg343701.html. >> >> Apparently, there is something in the binary file that compares an >> internal list of compatible camera models against the one stored >> in the >> PEF file. As Gonz stated, one possibility to achieve a match is >> editing >> the raw file. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
