On 7/11/2013 09:40, Bruce Walker wrote:
Ann, for the quality of your final image: no practical difference. RAW
is RAW. No lossy compression is used.
good.
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.
what is ACR? just curious. If all you are saying is that PEF takes up
more room than a DNG it doesn't matter. I'm not a big volume shooter at
this stage.
ann
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.
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