I ran PS Elements 5.0 on all the K20D stuff, shooting DNG's. (Shot PEF's for a while on the K10D) Regards, Bob S.
On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 11:50 AM, Doug Brewer<[email protected]> wrote: > I ran PS 7.0 on my work box and had no trouble with K20 files that I recall. > Generally, I converted using Irfanview; you might want to give it a try. > > P. J. Alling wrote: >> >> Well not really blues, exactly. The K20 is, relatively, big, and heavy, >> and takes very nice photos; very, very, nice photos. However it's just >> sinking in how much I'm going to have to upgrade. >> >> Pentax Photo Lab does a reasonably good job of converting the raw output, >> but it's really clunky to use. RSE which is what I have been using is, of >> course, a dead product, since Adobe bought it, (just as I had decided to buy >> RSP, also a dead product), but it did everything I needed and it's work flow >> was actually good enough for me to use when shooting a wedding or other >> event. Well that's gone and now I need to look at different raw converters. >> Some of the photoshop plugins I've been using simply refuse to work with >> files produced by the K20D, I'll have to find replacements, even if I didn't >> have to update to a newer picture editing program, (I'm using Photoshop >> 7.0). That too produced very nice output with the *ist-D and Ds). >> The built in card reader in my Win2K box chokes on SDHC cards, not >> surprising really, but I keep forgetting, annoying, so I need a new one of >> those. I was already running out of Hard drive space, looks like another >> Terabyte is in order, probably two, (damn I remember when a Terabyte was *a* >> *boatload* of storage). >> >> Then there's my flash units, I've been using a pair of AF280Ts as my >> primary on camera lighting, and an AF200T as a just in case unit, since my >> primary cameras were a pair of LXen. Well of course TTL is dead, so I need >> to upgrade those. Yes I know, they still work as dumb flash units, (and as >> long as I have an LX or a *ist camera in my inventory I will probably keep >> them, after all what are they worth used), but the 280s have always been a >> little under powered, and what made them reasonably viable was the their TTL >> capability. <Rhetorical>The question about the flash is do I go with >> something simple but powerful and robust such as Vivitar 285HV or a >> sophisticated unit like the Pentax AF-540.</rhetorical> Oh well, I don't >> /need/ to make that decision today. >> Thank Gaud that at least the lenses don't have to be changed, though I've >> been lusting over a 77 limited for some time now, and the 17-70 would be >> very convenient, and then there's that 15mm limited that everyone hates and >> either an A 20mm or Da 21mm, (AAAAARRRRRRGGGGGGG). > > > -- > 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.
