On Fri, 14 Nov 2003 22:37:56 -0600, Robert Gonzalez wrote: >John, how about a converter to 48bit Tiff? There is not much to do >(compared to a full blown app) except fix dcraw to do the white balance >using all 12 bits and "spreading" it out over 16 bits (maybe continue to >ignore the 4 lsbs). That way it can be brought into Adobe and processed >with all its nice gadgets. Plus I hear that the new PS 8 can do >everything in 16 bits now if you want. PS 7 was limited to a few >operations.
Actually, I think the latest DCRAW is able to write to 16-bit per color native .PSD format, so you could use that in Photoshop directly. The white-balance should certainly be extracted from the Pentax specific parts of the .PEF RAW file to make it usefull though ... Regards, JvW ------------------------------------------------------------------ Jan van Wijk; http://www.dfsee.com/gallery