- Set your K10D to RAW/DNG format. - Process in Camera Raw, any version greater than v2.4 will do. or - Set your K10D to RAW/PEF format. - After transferring the PEF files to your computer, run Pentax Photo Browser/Lab, select the files you want, and convert them to DNG format.
In either case, processing the K10D's DNG files with Adobe's DNG Converter will perform lossless compression and save a bunch of disk space. I don't use any specific calibrations. Someone posted calibrated presets for the K10D and I tried them ... on my system, the results were all over the map, comparatively speaking, and much harder to work with than just saving whatever Camera Raw defaults you prefer. I use Camera Raw v3.6 and its white balance eye dropper to get color temperature adjustments into the right ballpark. Alternatively, once you have the DNG files from the camera, you can try processing them with Adobe's Lightroom. I'm getting excellent results with it, all the photos in my recent "Window People" posting were processed from RAW/DNG with Lightroom. http://www.gdgphoto.com/windowpeople/ Other RAW converters: Silkypix (PEF and DNG) LightZone (DNG) RAW Developer (PEF and DNG, Mac OS X only) Bibble (PEF, beta version) I've tried the first three of these and each has its strengths and weaknesses. I prefer Camera Raw and Lightroom at this point, they produce the best prints by my testing, so far. Godfrey On Jan 19, 2007, at 9:04 AM, Rob Brigham wrote: > Now that I have decided to take the plunge (thanks to re-instated > wireless support), I just wanted to check something. > > I have Adobe CS2 and use Adobe Camera Raw for all my RAW processing > from > the istD. > > I seem to recall seeing mention that this doesn't support the PEF > files > from the K10D though - is that right? > > If so then presumably the obvious answer is to use DNG (think I have > seen lots of people doing that) and pass this through Camera RAW - I > really don't want to learn another tool in the first instance > having got > used to this one. > If doing this, do I need to do anything special to calibrate Adobe RAW > for the DNG files from the K10D? > > Obviously I could go and search for this but there are just too many > posts and a lot of discussion about RAW workflow etc which makes a lot > of work to wade through. If someone can help me be lazy it would be > much appreciated. > > Thanks > > (axcited) Rob -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
