On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 12:10 AM, John Francis <[email protected]> wrote: > Heck, it wouldn't be that difficult to write a DNG-to-(PEF/NEF/CRW/Whatever) > converter, if it were necessary.
There is nothing out there today that can do that. I can convert all my PEFs to DNG tomorrow if I want to >As I've said before, there's nothing in a > PEF that isn't in a DNG file. Not every one agrees on that http://www.openraw.org/node/1482/ Even if I convert all my PEFs to DNG I'm keeping the original manufacturer format. >Personally I find it somewhat hard to believe > that a RAW converter that knows how to pull some magic information out of a > PEF file to produce "better" converted images couldn't find the information > in a DNG file if it were worth doing. > Whatever support they give on DNG is half-arse attempt,some features are not there, etc. If you don't care about other raw converters that's fine ~that's what you have to weight, and that's why is a personal decision~ If you prefer Lightroom, and you think that's all you need today and in the future, and you are confident that DNG keeps all data that is in PEF, and you don't care about halving your card storage, and you don't care about hard drive space or running processes to compress DNGs, then fine, go with DNG. In my personal case, I prefer PEFs, and I stated why; it may well be that all reasons I'm presenting are not relevant to others, and so they are free to use DNG; you are free to use any format you find that suits your needs best. Personally I don't mind, I just don't think that DNG and Lightroom are necessarily the best option out there for everyone -my opinion that is-. Choice is good, evidently being able to choose whatever converter I want is more important to me than to others. Choice is good. Peace. -- 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.
