It's an interesting strategy. Whatever works for you ... With the K10D you can review what's on the card with the camera and render a RAW file to JPEG on the fly. I use that occasionally if I'm in the field and want to examine a JPEG file a little more closely ... pop the card into my Treo 650 and open the JPEG with a JPEG viewer. Or into a card reader and any computer.
Or, if I'm not carrying the laptop, I carry the Epson P2000 and run RAW+JPEG, do the same as above. Godfrey On Feb 1, 2007, at 1:10 PM, Peter Lacus wrote: > Godfrey, > >>> ... However I have Pentax utilities stored on a SD card >>> right inside my ist-Ds "just in case" as they occupy roughly the >>> space >>> of 2 RAW images (PC version) and the conversions are usually very >>> good >>> (version 3 based on SilkyPix) and certainly better than in-camera >>> JPEGs. ... >> >> That's a curious strategy ... why would you waste the space on your >> camera storage card to have these items there? Do you launch them >> directly from the storage card when you're doing an upload to the >> computer? > > when travelling I usually don't take my computer with me. But I > like to > have an option to see my pictures on a computer screen should I decide > for example to print some of them. I can find a suitable PC almost > anywhere but unfortunately most of them can't display Pentax RAW. > In that case I can use Pentax Browser and/or Laboratory and they > can run > straight from the card, there's no need of installation. > > However, in the meantime I've stumbled upon PEF2JPG utility which > should > be sufficient for that purpose, so eventually I might reclaim those > "wasted" 14MB from my SD card and put this utility (measly 86kB) there > instead. > > http://www.kit.hi-ho.ne.jp/yj_okawa/pef2jpeg_readme-e.html > > BTW until now I wasn't aware that in each .PEF file, the RAW data are > accompanied by full sized JPEG picture. You can't choose its > quality on > pre-K10D cameras, but for 4x6 prints or the web use it should be more > than enough anyway. > >> I have all my RAW processing and image manipulation software >> installed on both desktop and laptop, there's no need to have a >> backup copy on the storage card. > > that's fine as long as you have some of yours computers with you. > > Cheers, > > Peter > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
