well... no. the idea (as i understand it) behind DNG is to make pentax et al create the proprietory "converters", or, better yet, use DNG itself as a raw format. the 3rd party (adobe in this case) raw-to-DNG converter is useful only as a toy to give people some sense of what is should look and feel like.
best, mishka On Sun, 10 Oct 2004 21:36:01 -0400, Mark Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "John Francis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >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?
