we're paying for their lazy programmers every time. more images on a storage card and shorter time to flush an image from buffer to card is what they should have been paying attention to. home computers are fast enough now that unpacking from 12 to 16 bits should be the least of anyone's problems.
Herb... ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Francis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, November 14, 2004 6:00 PM Subject: Re: RAW file size variation? (Dumb Question #3485438345) > Unlike most (or at least most who express an opinion) on this list, > I think Pentax did the right thing with their PEF fle format. > When the 14-bit sensors come out, Pentax won't have to change their > format. They can also use standard software libraries to read and > write their image files - a PEF file is actually just a very thinly > disguised TIFF file. That's going to make it really easy for any > future versions of Photo Laboratory and suchlike to handle both the > existing 12-bit and any future 14-bit (or even 16-bit) files.
