"John Francis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I've just taken my first look at what the Adobe DNG converter >does when you give it a Pentax PEF file from the *ist-D > >First and foremost: the DNG converter doesn't preserve all the >Pentax-private data from the MakerNote tag (including, amongst >other things, the code identifying the lens mounted on the camera). >I would strongly recommend any *ist-D owner save a copy of the >PEF file, even if you decide to use DNG as a raw file format.
Doesn't that obviate one of the main reasons for the existence of the DNG format? -- Mark Roberts Photography and writing www.robertstech.com