On Fri, Feb 01, 2013 at 02:23:12PM -0800, Larry Colen wrote: > > > Joseph McAllister wrote: > > > >> > >>On Feb 1, 2013, at 13:32 , Charles Robinson wrote: > >> > >>> On Feb 1, 2013, at 15:07 , Bob Sullivan <rf.sulli...@gmail.com> wrote: > >>> > >>>> I'm getting 18 or 19 mb files in DNG's. > >>>> Once you can't recover some bad shots, > >>>> you'll stop using JPG's. > >>>> It costs almost nothing and gives better results! > >>> > >>> Interesting.. mine are all 20-29Mb. > >> > >>Put more sky into your compositions. That'll get rid of 8-10 Mb! > > > > Yep, the K-5 writes *compressed* DNG format. Compression yields > > smaller files with less detailed subjects. Higher ISO settings yield > > more noise and thus larger files, too. > > I needed to shoot DNG for an event and found something annoying. > > I normally add a digit to the file index using the fourth character of the > name, so 7043 becomes LRC37043.PEF, but if I shoot in DNG I lose the > fourth character, it becomes _LRC7043.DNG.
It's your own fault for having three initials! Are you sure this is the K5 you're talking about? That's how my K10D behaves, but on the K5 I don't get that leading underscore on the name. I set the prefix on my K5 to "K5_0" (at least for the first 10000 exposures), and when I look in a random image directory I see K5_01396.JPG & K5_01396.DNG -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
