On Mon, 16 Feb 2004, Shel Belinkoff wrote: > The only thing about moving to the istd is that I'd probably > want/need to upgrade Photoshop to CS ... and that might mean > investing more $$ into additional computer resources. I'm > not a JPEG shooter when I want the highest quality, so it > would be RAW or TIFF for me, I suppose. The istd does use > TIFF, right?
Yes. TIFF files have already gone through processing on the camera though (bayer processing and reduced to 8bits). They are also larger (17m vs 13m). You really want to use RAW if you don't want to use JPEG. You don't need to use Photoshop CS to process RAW, it just seems to have the best implementation of it right now. You can use the Pentax photo lab to convert RAW to 16-bit TIFF and process that in Photoshop. alex
