Op Tue, 08 Apr 2008 05:57:34 +0200 schreef Godfrey DiGiorgi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> On Apr 7, 2008, at 7:17 PM, Christine Aguila wrote: >> >> small >> http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=7143990 >> >> larger >> http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=7143990&size=lg > > Very nice. > >> Anyway, here's the question: do you primarily shoot PEFs or DNGs >> since >> Lightroom does PEFs? Any preferences or does it even matter. This >> shot is >> a DNG. > > I have the K10D set to capture in PEF format. When I import to > Lightroom, I have it convert to DNG on the fly directly from card to > computer hard drive, and make a backup copy of the PEFs on a RAW > archive drive. (With *ist D and *ist DS files, the DNGs would be > about 40% smaller than the native camera PEFs, but on the K10D the > PEFs are losslessly compressed so they end up about the same size.) > > The resulting DNG files process identically to the PEFs. The > difference is in how Lightroom stores the editing information when > you elect the "Metadata->Save to File" command or if you have it set > to automatically sync the metadata into the files. With PEF files, > the metadata is written to a .XMP sidecar file in the same directory > as the PEF file. With DNG files the metadata is appended to the .DNG > file. This makes the DNG format files a little easier to manage as > you cannot accidentally lose your metadata edits. Hi Godfrey, That is clear, but is there any reason why you don't set the K10d to capture in dng format? That'd save the pef-dng conversion step, wouldn't it? -- Ciao, Lucas -- 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.
