On Nov 25, 2010, at 7:29 PM, Tim Bray wrote: > Up till now, with my K20, I've still been shooting in PEF because > they're the same bits and the files are smaller. What am I missing? > > -T Nothing, except perhaps forward compatibility. For all practical purposes PEF and DNG raw files are the same. But PEF is camera specific, and DNG is a standard adobe format. Paul
> > On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 4:14 PM, Bob W <[email protected]> wrote: >> Enjoy! >> >> >>> Well, y'all finally shamed me into shooting in DNG. Up until now, >> I've been >>> shooting almost exclusively in JPG. The few raw shots I have taken were >>> throw-away shots I simply discarded out of hand. But, tonight, I decided >> to >>> check try out the DNG + JPG function while taking shots of the family >>> Thanksgiving feast. >>> >>> You see, quite a few of the reviews I read before buying my K-x lauded its >>> jpeg engine, stating that you don't really give up much at all by using it >>> instead of RAW. So, in the interest of conserving relatively scarce >> storage >>> space and computer resources, I never really bothered. >>> >>> Well, I'm here to say -- and feel free to pass this along to anyone who >> ever >>> wrote a review of the K-x making that claim -- that they're huge liars >> (I'm >>> looking at YOU dpreview!). I'm quite simply astonished at the difference, >>> and kicking myself over the fact that it took me over >>> 7000 clicks to realize it. Of those 7000 shots, I shudder to think how >> many >>> were deleted that could have easily been salvaged. >>> >>> Ah, well ... live and learn. But, damn ... so many shots. (sob) >>> >>> -- Walt >>> >>> >>> -- >>> 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. >> >> >> -- >> 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. >> > > -- > 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. -- 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.
