On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 12:37:45PM -0400, John Sessoms wrote: > > In other threads I've read that when you're shooting RAW, the camera > produces a JPEG for the LCD; that you're always viewing a JPEG on > the LCD. > > Is that JPEG somehow stored inside the PEF file or does the camera > create the JPEG on the fly every time you use the LCD to view an > image irregardless the format you're shooting?
It's stored in the PEF file (and in a JPEG file, and in a DNG file, and on the *ist-D it was stored in the TIFF file as well). That's in addition to the small thumbnail JPEG image that is probably used for the usual LCD display; the extra JPEG is used when viewing zoomed-in. The camera review software doesn't want to have to deal with all the different formats, or spend the time necessary to read all the data back from the card, convert them to JPEG, downsample appropriately, and display - that would make image review unbearably slow. > I do know when you shoot RAW+JPEG you get two separate files on the card. Yep. And each of those contains a small thumbnail image and a low- quality full-resolution JPEG. -- 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.
