On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 09:41:36AM -0800, Joseph Tainter wrote: > Ken, this is wonderful information. Thanks very much for the > translation. You are a great asset for us.
Hear, hear! > Compressed RAW? This is news. It's pretty much a last-minute change to the firmware (for a while the Pentax Japan web pages didn't mention it). It's been discussed in several of the dpreview Pentax forum threads. Basically, at present, PEF files will be compressed (yielding an average file size of around 10-12MB, initial tests suggest), while DNG files will not be compressed, so will be around 17MB in size. I'm sure we'll see compressed DNG files in a firmware update, but presumably Pentax do not yet have code that implements the compression format (or formats) mandated by DNG. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
