On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 08:14:32AM +0000, mike wilson wrote: > Charles Robinson wrote: > >> Last year (2008) I totally screwed up and lost (yes, lost) a whole month's >> worth of images due to inconsistencies in my backup process. >> >> I realized just recently that all of the 1:1 previews from May of 2008 >> are still in my Lightroom database (despite a setting which says to >> remove them after a month!). > > Glad that this worked out for you but it demonstrates cleary what I > loathe about Adobe products. Why should this programme _duplicate_ the > full image file? Utter bloatware behaviour.
Not really. Lightroom is aimed at photographers who shoot a lot of RAW images. The difference in size between a 640x480 preview JPG and a 1:1 preview isn't that great, and both are much smaller than the original. Pentax do the same thing in a PEF; it includes a full-resolution JPEG (used, I believe, by both the in-camera review and the Pentax Browser). Or, at least, they did when I last poked around inside a PEF. I don't know for certain that this behaviour continues with the later cameras, or if DNGs also contain this full-size preview, but I'd assume so. -- 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.
