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I think Tanya coined the name Starkist for the *ist D. I'm trying
to finally make the switch to DNG. I'm also planning on getting
LR3, the combination of which should keep me from doing any serious
work for at least a month.
The original *ist-D doesn't offer .DNG as a raw format.
You get either .PEF or .TIF or .JPG
Just before I got my *ist-D, I read a review of it in Shutterbug. The
author was impressed with Pentax's support for TIFF files in camera,
which no one else offered, and recommended .TIF over .PEF.
And if you shot TIFF you could get three sizes S,M,L just like you could
with jpegs. You could get more M-TIFF files on a card (I started with
one 256MB CF card) than you could raw files, so that's what I shot most
of the time I was deployed.
I didn't understand then that it got M-TIFF by essentially turning the
camera into a 4MP digital. I was wasting 1/3 of the capability of the
sensor. The only saving grace is whenever I'd get into a pinch for space
on a card, I'd switch to large, best quality jpegs which are full 6MP
images.
With a 4GB CF card the *ist-D (firmware v.1.12) gives:
290 .PEF 6MP
229 large .TIF 6MP
359 med .TIF 4MP
861 small .TIF 2MP
999 *** L .JPG 6MP - also M 4MP & S 2MP in ***, ** and * quality.
999 is the highest number the counter will display.
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