Touche. With my last breath I will press "enter" to run that a script right before I die ;-)
On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 4:12 PM, Jos from Holland <[email protected]> wrote: > Okay, I will ask my grandson to contact you 50 years from now if he does not > get his grandfathers files open! > Greetz Jos > > Fernando wrote: >> >> Hi Jos, >> >> You have that with Pentax converter, and probably some other from >> Adobe. You will probably always have some piece of software available >> from Pentax to do this. >> >> My problem with DNG is that my prefered raw converter (Capture One) >> doesn't work with it, DNG files are larger, I don't care for Adobe's >> converter, and all converters that I like (Capture One and Silkypix) >> work with PEF, particularly for me all that outweights the benefits of >> storing files in DNG in prevention for the hypothetical case of a >> future were you cannot open Pentax raw format. >> >> I take that risk, I guess worst case scenario in twenty years I'll be >> running a script to convert all my images while you are using them >> directly ;-) >> >> Cheers >> >> On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 3:43 PM, Jos from Holland >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> >>> Hi Fernando, >>> Don't you need then SW that understands PEF (of the specific camera)???' >>> >>> Fernando wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> You can convert PEF to DNG after the fact, if that ever happens. >>>> >>>> On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 3:23 PM, Jos from Holland >>>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>>> >>>>> Bran Everseeking wrote: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> what are the benefits and drawbacks of pef vs dng? >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Every camera brand and often every camera model has its own type of RAW >>>>> --> >>>>> 20 years from now all software can open DNG but probably not all RAW, >>>>> certainly not of brands that existed in the past......) >>>>> Greetz, Jos >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> 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. >>> >>> >> >> >> >> > > -- > 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. > -- http://www.flickr.com/photos/ferand/ -- 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.
