>> Then write your own converter.  It's easy enough to do - the DNG spec
>> is published (not exactly what I call a proprietary format).  The PEF
>> format isn't published, of course, but it's been reverse-engineered.
>
> dcraw + libtiff does most of the work for you ... just glue them
> together. ;-)
>
        That will get the image, but not preserve the metadata in a 
readable form.  There is no benefit to converting to DNG from a PEF using 
a hacked together form like that.  As for now, I archive the PEF's 
directly, albeit in a losslessly compressed format (bzip2 for about 30% 
savings).

-Cory

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* Cory Papenfuss, Ph.D., PPSEL-IA                                       *
* Electrical Engineering                                                *
* Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University                   *
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