Ann, for the quality of your final image: no practical difference. RAW is RAW. No lossy compression is used.
One practical difference is how well compressed the RAW files are, and that affects your long-term file storage. Makes a difference when you have fifty thousand of them. Pentax created PEF is not as well compressed as Pentax created DNG which is not as well compressed as Adobe created DNG. So for best compression, create PEFs in camera then convert to DNG when importing into Lightroom or ACR. But since you are pulling your images into PSE for conversion to JPEG, you might be best off creating DNGs in camera as you're just going to be saving them to disk like that. On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 9:29 AM, Ann Sanfedele <[email protected]> wrote: > so from a practical aspect, what is the difference if when I output from > elements I'd be making are 300 ppi jpgs ? or pngs? > > I have no experience at all with DNGS... anyone want to school me > briefly? > > ann > > > On 7/11/2013 09:19, Brian Walters wrote: >> >> Quoting Ann Sanfedele <[email protected]>: >> >>> full disclosure time, >>> I only have ELEMENTS 5.0 and it happily allows me to open PEF's and >>> it does pretty much all I've asked it to do so I don't plan on >>> changing what I'll be processing with. Many of you know I'm running >>> Windoze XP on a dell dimension that is about 7 years old. All my >>> photos go on the 1 terrabit external drive. Just an fyi if that >>> affects anything, changes any advice - etc. >> >> >> >> Not wishing to throw a spanner into the works but does Elements 5 >> support PEFs from the K5? I could be wrong (hopefully) but the ACR >> plugin for Elements 5 might not. If so, you may have to use DNGs. >> >> > > -- > 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. -- -bmw -- 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.
