Hi Mark, Just to clean up any misunderstanding I may have caused; last night I shot a DNG on my K20D, and open that in Capture One 4.
The file is opened and can be processed; however the camera profile is not automatically recognized and the preset white balance options are reduced to "as shot" -none of the other options are present-. There might be something else I didn't catch. Let me then change what I said: Capture One does read and process DNG, but your workflow and options are better supported by this software if you shoot .PEF. I don't know if there are similar issues with other applications, I leave that to those to use DxO, Bible or other. So, in my case with a K20D and Capture One, and even if I decided to use DNG as archival format, I still find benefitial to shoot PEF for the slightly better support I get on my conversion tool of choice, and the better use of card space -If i need to run a batch process in my PC to compress DNG I might as well run a batch process to convert PEF to DNG- I can convert PEF to DNG anytime I want, the opposite -as of today- is not easily achievable. This is my case and my case only; but if someone is in a similar position as I am, he or she can benefit from reviewing a different point of view ~in this case mine~ Cheers On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 9:52 AM, Mark Roberts <[email protected]> wrote: > William Robb wrote: > >>From: "Fernando" >> >>> I'm just stating that, as of today, shooting DNG >>>restricts you from usign the full universe of raw converters out >>>there. >> >>There are a lot of advantages to DNG. So what if I miss out on a raw >>converter that I will never use? And how good can it be if it doesn't offer >>support for open source raw files? >>I mean really, it's not like they have to reverse engineer to support DNG. > > Of course, as has been pointed out, Capture One *does* support DNG, > they just provide the scary disclaimer about camera-specific features > not necessarily being supported. There two reasons for their doing so, > both of which are conveniently covered by three-letter-acronyms: CYA > and FUD. > > CYA (Cover Your Ass) is because they're worried about people bitching > when a new camera adds data that isn't currently supported. They're > just pre-emptively protecting themselves from whiners. > > FUD (Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt) is how they're trying to protect > their own interests: They don't want to kill the goose that keeps > laying the profitable (to them) egg of multiple new raw formats. > > > -- > 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.
