On May 5, 2007, at 1:17 PM, William Robb wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Maris V. Lidaka Sr." > Subject: PEF or DNG > > >> My Pentax K10D has arrived - photos today, or maybe tomorrow. >> >> PEF or DNG - which do you use, and why? (or why not?) > > I was using DNG until Photoshop started supporting PEFs. I switched > over to > Pef and saw no pressing reson to switch back. I don't think there > is a lot > of difference between the way the files present themselves, but the > PEFs are > 6 megs smaller, which doesn't hurt.
The primary difference on disk, and the reason I convert to DNG, is that Lightroom and Photoshop+Bridge+Camera Raw will embed updated metadata into the DNG file where for PEFs the metadata is saved to an external sidecar file. DNG saves disk space and some management because of this. DNGs produced by conversion are compressed and just a little smaller than PEFs too. Godfrey -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
