Two words, "WindowsXP Yuck".
W. Guy Finley wrote:
> 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.
>>>
>
>
>
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