Lucas Rijnders wrote: > Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: > >> 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. > > That is clear, but is there any reason why you don't set the K10d to > capture in dng format? That'd save the pef-dng conversion step, wouldn't > it?
The K10D only saves in *uncompressed* DNG format, so you get fewer shots on a card than if you shoot PEF. A further side effect is that if your preferred archiving format is compressed DNG, then shooting in DNG format doesn't save you a step at all because you still have to use DNG Converter to convert to compressed format. :( Dare I ask if they've fixed this with the K20D? (Does it save DNG in compressed DNG format?) -- 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.
