Mark, I shoot DNG and don't bother with conversion. Here are my reasons: 1. Hard Disks are not *that* expensive these days. 2. I tried Adobe DNG Converter and somehow I did not like what I saw. A strange patch of pixels appeared on the right hand side of the image and I decided I'd rather not. 3. I am quite paranoid about originals. So I just keep the originals.
I tried to switch my camera from DNG to PEF. Per 1 GB card camera reported that it can fit 60 DNGs and 61 PEFs... Not worth the hassle. Finally, I do hope that more programs will be able to read DNG. Compatibility is worth keeping in one's mind. Cheers. Boris-the-conservative. Mark Cassino wrote: > Last Sunday I took some shots of a choral recital. I wanted to shoot RAW > because the lighting was tricky (in a church, no flash allowed, half the > group in full stain-glass filtered sun, half in the gloomy chancel). I > decided to use PEF vs DNG, just so I could squeeze enough photos on the > card to avoid changing cards while shooting. > > Of course I forgot about the PEF setting and yesterday went out shooting > wildflowers using PEF as opposed to DNG for about 350 shots. > > I may be crazy, but the ISO 400 shots I took yesterday - under pretty > gloomy overcast skies and flat light - seem to have more noise in the > backgrounds than the DNG shots I've been taking up till now. I haven't > done a scientific comparison, but I've looked at a lot of shots taken as > DNG's at ISO 400, and these certainly seem different. Not to the point > of being unacceptable - but just some cyan-magenta sprinkles. > > Last Sunday's choir shots were taken at ISO 800, plus I had to do a lot > of shadow,highlight, and color temp adjustment while processing the RAW > files to compensate for the lighting situation. Those were more noisy > than I'm used to, but I figured that was the inevitable result of higher > ISO (I almost never go above 400) and the adjustments. > > Has anyone else switched back and forth between the two formats and seen > a difference? > > - MCC > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
