On Jun 26, 2008, at 5:09 PM, John Celio wrote: > So I've got a bajillion PEF files from over the years, and my > photography > hard drive is rapidly filling up (I can't imagine how fast it'll fill > whenever I manage to upgrade to the K20D or its eventual > replacement). I've > been thinking about converting all my PEFs to compressed DNGs, but > can't > remember the various ups and downs I've read about in various > threads here. > > So my question is, are there any reasons one should NOT convert > PEFs to > compressed DNGs?
Since about DNG Converter v3.2, DNGs have been completely lossless with regard to maker notes. Of course, only the (horrid) Pentax Photo Lab uses all the maker notes anyway, and I refuse to use that. Converting all my *ist DS PEFs to DNG saves 48 Gbytes in my archive. I'd say that's worth it. ;-) Godfrey -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
