I have been using Phase One, Capture One (now 4.8) for years. I's brillinat I think. Good support as well. Regards Jens -- Treat others as you would like to be treated yourself.
On Jul 9, 2009 18:50 "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.

