I can't really imagine why you'd want to use RAW+JPEG capture mode
when you're using Lightroom. The JPEGs become redundant.
But that aside, I import from card using Lightroom's tools, convert
to DNG on the fly, and put the converted files into a directory
structure that looks like:
YYYY
in-progress
YYYYMMDD-label1
YYYYMMDD-label2
...
I have been leaving the file names alone, as they come out of the
camera, but lately I've begun to date-code them too. Instead of
IMGPXXXX.dng they become YYMMDDGD-XXXX.dng. It seems to make it
easier to find things.
During import, I have a second copy of the RAW files, exactly as they
are on the card, written to a separate, dedicated backup storage
volume. Lightroom creates dated folders for this automatically.
Adding a set of keywords, and IPTC metadata as well, during import
helps get a leg up on organizing too.
Godfrey
On Dec 17, 2007, at 11:22 PM, Antti-Pekka Virjonen wrote:
> I'm back with another K10D question now that I was finally allowed to
> open my present ;-). My birthday will be later this week, but I had
> the
> party on Saturday so I now have the new toys in my hands.
>
> I've got the K10D + BG-2 together with SanDisk Extreme-III 4GB
> cards. I
> also bought the new fantastic DA* 16-50! So far I like the kit a
> lot. I
> have set up the recording mode to RAW+ and PEF and will most likely
> use
> LR (+some CS3). In LR I think I will convert the PEFs to compressed
> DNG.
> Which would be the preferable folder name when using LR, the default
> xxxPENTX or xxx_DDMM? I guess if I shoot a lot of images each day I
> would find the date format suitable, but maybe the "fixed" name if
> shooting more or less occasionally. Which do you use?
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