On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 11:58 AM, William Robb <[email protected]> wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Fernando" > Subject: Re: pef vs dng > > >> 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 what you are saying is that Capture one is broken out of the box.
Nope, for Pentax PEF is what they commit to fully support in their documentation: "Pentax: K7, K20D, K10D, K200D, K110D, K100D Super, K100D, *istDL2, *istDL, *istD, *istDS2, *istDS (Only PEF files supported)" "Adobe: DNG (raw DNG support only). The DNG support is not optimized for specific cameras." > >> >> 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. > >I'm not quite certain why one would want to convert from DNG to PEF, so I'm >not buying into the validity of your last sentence. Capture One works better with PEF as I mentioned in my test; In DNG you have an extra step to select camera profile, and even doing so you still can't get some preset options in "white balance". Had I shot DNG in the past and were to switch to Capture One without said inconveniences I would require such conversion. -- 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.
