I'm not Godfrey but I'll answer anyway :-)

At 04:56 PM 2/02/2007, you wrote:
>Hey Godfrey
>
>do you mean that Lightroom will store image corrections made in
>lightroom in the DNG file itself rather than needing to write XMP
>sidecar files?

Yes.

>  If so, would sharing images between computers mean
>that lightroom on the second computer would start with the settings in
>the DNG file that the first computer set?

Yes, again.

Cheers,

Dave


>Alastair
>
>On 2/2/07, Godfrey DiGiorgi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > On Feb 1, 2007, at 5:35 PM, Digital Image Studio wrote:
> >
> > > On 02/02/07, David J Brooks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >
> > >> 2- I loaded a dng file last night from a K10D saved dng. Opened up,
> > >> fixed the wrong WB and saved. I noticed later that the saved file was
> > >> 900K but my saved jpg file was 2Mg as shown in the save as screen.
> > >>
> > >> Is there something i'm doing wrong with the dng
> > >
> > > Firstly DNGs from the K10D shouldn't be that small, they are generally
> > > in the order of 15.5-17MB in file size, and secondly why and how did
> > > you save a DNG? You shouldn't need to alter a DNG file, any changes to
> > > WB are generally registered with the associated RAW application.
> >
> > DNG files are designed to be containers. After setting RAW parameters
> > with Camera Raw or Lightroom, the parameters are saved into the DNG
> > file for further use. The RAW data they contain isn't changed, only
> > the metadata which includes these parameter settings.
> >
> > I don't quite understand what Dave is seeing either, but you can save
> > out a DNG from Camera Raw or export one with the edit parameters
> > embedded from Lightroom.
> >
> > Godfrey
> >
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