"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?

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Mark Roberts
Photography and writing
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