Mark, was i correct in my asumtion that the information in the files get over written if you go back and do another edit.
Dave On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 2:46 PM, Mark Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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. > -- Equine Photography www.caughtinmotion.com http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ Ontario Canada -- 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.
