Of course it refused to open PEFs. None of the third party software works with new camera until the format has been communicated and the software updated. I'm using ACR with all my K20D images with no problem. I've posted more than a dozen here, including at least half a dozen color pics, many shot under tungsten, one shot in light coming only from a television screen. Paul On Mar 11, 2008, at 2:13 AM, Tim Bray wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 1, 2008 at 8:46 PM, David Savage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> OK >> >> On Sun, Mar 2, 2008 at 12:37 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Pentax Photo Lab processed shots may look less noisy, but they >>> lose detail as well. If you saw the 1600 ISO shots I posted, I >>> think you'd have to agree that they're coparable to ISO 400 K10D >>> shots in terms of noise -- with no loss of detail. They're all >>> ACR processed. I have never seen any benefit to using the Pentax >>> software. In the past or now. ACR used correctly -- or lightroom, >>> which is the same code -- is far superior. >>> > > I disagree. I had some high-ISO shots - a baby in a bath - and > Lightroom 1.3 entirely failed at setting white balance using the WB > Selector. I could sort of dial it in with the other adjustments. The > interesting thing is that if you use the WB selector, the picture > looks OK at the macro level; in fact, with better colour balance than > I could get by hand. But if you look at a 100% crop, the damage is > obvious, the baby looked like she had some horrible skin disease. > > This is with the DNG files. It refused to even open PEFs. -Tim > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above > and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
