A "true raw file" would have to contain data for every pixel recorded. You could reduce the number or pixels recorded but then it wouldn't be raw. Pentax doesn't seem to allow capture of only a portion of the sensor data, if that's even actually possible, based on the sensor design.
Shel Belinkoff wrote: > Perhaps I wasn't clear. What I want(ed) to know was if there is some way > to generate a true raw file, in either a format like PEF or DNG either > directly from the camera or by resizing the file in some editing software > (without changing to TIFF or JPEG or any other such format) to make it > physically smaller, both in dimension and size. As I said, I'm pretty sure > I know the answer to that question (No), but I had to ask. Adam mentioned > it can be done with one of the Canon models. It would be great if there > could be a 900 x 600 RAW file could be generated so it could easily be > posted to a web page and people could work on it as some here do with JPEGs > (often with the comment that there's not much more they can do because it's > not a RAW file). > > Shel > > > > >> [Original Message] >> From: David Savage >> > > >> Yeah, I agree. But Shel wasn't asking about making high quality .jpg's :-) >> > > >>> Boris Liberman wrote: >>> >>> >>>> Dave, but what if you downsized the TIFF file before making a DNG out >>>> of it? I think this is what Shel is asking about. >>>> > > > > -- Entropy Seminar: The results of a five yeer studee ntu the sekend lw uf thurmodynamiks aand itz inevibl fxt hon shewb rt nslpn raq liot. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
