> -----Original Message----- > From: Mark Roberts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > "Peter Loveday" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >My only complaint is that the 12 bit data is padded to 16 > bit. This makes > >the raw file bigger than it needs to be; they are over > 12MB, where they > >should only need to be 9MB or so. This reduces storage on > CF, and slows > >write times, seemingly unnecesarily. If anyone at Pentax > is listening, > >please could we have non-padded PEF files? > > ISTR that the Canon 10D (6-megapixel) RAW files are also > 12MB - I think > it was Tom Van Veen who told me that and I wondered at the > time why they > weren't 9MB. (Am I remembering this correctly, Tom?)
No, they're 6 megs. When converted to 8 bit tiff, they're 18 megs. I thought a raw file was a sensor dump, and the size of the file should correlate with the size of the sensor? tv
