On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 05:09:33PM -0700, John Celio wrote: > So I've got a bajillion PEF files from over the years, and my photography > hard drive is rapidly filling up (I can't imagine how fast it'll fill > whenever I manage to upgrade to the K20D or its eventual replacement). I've > been thinking about converting all my PEFs to compressed DNGs, but can't > remember the various ups and downs I've read about in various threads here. > > So my question is, are there any reasons one should NOT convert PEFs to > compressed DNGs? > > Thanks, > John
Absolutely none, in my opinion. It used to be the case that if you switched to DNG you either lost the Pentax MakerNote tag or had to pay a severe premium (basically encapsulating a copy of the entire PEF file within the DNG). But a few DNG/ACR releases ago Adobe came up with a scheme that saved a copy of just the MakerNote tag. That being said, I haven't done it myself with my old PEFs from the *ist D. In fact I haven't even compressed the DNGs from my K10D. -- 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.
