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
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