I capture in RAW/PEF as that is compressed and save space on the card. I import PEFs from the card with Lightroom using "copy files with DNG conversion", putting them on the hard drive.
If you capture using RAW/DNG in camera, you can compress them on the fly to your hard drive by using DNG Converter to move them from card to computer. Lightroom does not do the compression when it moves a DNG file, it assumes that it is fully formed and needs no conversion. Godfrey On May 5, 2007, at 2:12 PM, Maris V. Lidaka Sr. wrote: > Convert to DNG within camera, or in Lightroom/Bridge/PS-Camera Raw? > > Maris > > Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: >> The primary difference on disk, and the reason I convert to DNG, is >> that Lightroom and Photoshop+Bridge+Camera Raw will embed updated >> metadata into the DNG file where for PEFs the metadata is saved to an >> external sidecar file. DNG saves disk space and some management >> because of this. DNGs produced by conversion are compressed and just >> a little smaller than PEFs too. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
