The user stated that it was 'straight from the camera' and there was comment that the DNG compression was one of the reasons for the late appearance of the firmware.
Seems the camera is producing compressed DNG :) Rod -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Francis On Sat, Nov 18, 2006 at 07:53:05PM -0700, Joseph Tainter wrote: > "One further point - at present I believe the only way to get a > compressed DNG is using software on your computer; the in-camera DNG is > uncompressed." > > Well, that's interesting. It really was a 6 mb DNG file. I double check > such things considering the speed of my dial-up connection. I'm sure it was. It's just that almost certainly* this isn't exactly how it came out of the camera - at the very least it's been run through some piece of software (such as the Adobe DNG converter) which can read an uncompressed DNG and write out the same data using the compressed DNG format. That's what I would do if I were going to upload a DNG. It's also possible that it was originally saved as a PEF, and converted to DNG using the Pentax Photo Laboratory software shipped with the camera; I believe this can write DNG files (although, strangely, not read them). *I say "almost certainly" because it's possible that Pentax have got round to implementing compressed DNG in-camera in the last week or two, although I think this is pretty unlikely. .net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
