Walter Hamler wrote: > I usually shoot RAW's in dng format. However I shot some today in PEF. > When I opened a few in ACR and saved them as jpegs there was an > aditional xmp file saved seperately in the same folder. Are they data > files for the exif data?
They are files containing the raw conversion data for Camera Raw or Lightroom. When you set conversion parameters in ACR or Lightroom, the actual raw file doesn't get changed, the conversion settings you specified are just saved in a format called XMP (for Extensible Metadata Platform). The DNG format was designed from the outset for this kind of thing so the XMP data is saved within the DNG file (so you can never lose or accidentally delete it). With all other raw formats, the XMP data gets saved in a separate XMP "sidecar" file. -- 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.
