On Apr 7, 2008, at 7:17 PM, Christine Aguila wrote: > > small > http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=7143990 > > larger > http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=7143990&size=lg
Very nice. > Anyway, here's the question: do you primarily shoot PEFs or DNGs > since > Lightroom does PEFs? Any preferences or does it even matter. This > shot is > a DNG. I have the K10D set to capture in PEF format. When I import to Lightroom, I have it convert to DNG on the fly directly from card to computer hard drive, and make a backup copy of the PEFs on a RAW archive drive. (With *ist D and *ist DS files, the DNGs would be about 40% smaller than the native camera PEFs, but on the K10D the PEFs are losslessly compressed so they end up about the same size.) The resulting DNG files process identically to the PEFs. The difference is in how Lightroom stores the editing information when you elect the "Metadata->Save to File" command or if you have it set to automatically sync the metadata into the files. With PEF files, the metadata is written to a .XMP sidecar file in the same directory as the PEF file. With DNG files the metadata is appended to the .DNG file. This makes the DNG format files a little easier to manage as you cannot accidentally lose your metadata edits. Godfrey -- 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.
