I saw no advantage to PEF and my Pentax cameras are all set to shoot DNG. I have a vague memory that there might have been a difference in buffering between the two but I wasn't worried about it.
One of the minor annoyances of shooting with my non-Pentax cameras is having to do the extra step of converting to DNG. gs George Sinos -------------------- gsi...@gmail.com www.georgesphotos.net plus.georgesinos.com On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 9:00 AM, Charles Robinson <charl...@visi.com> wrote: > On May 22, 2012, at 13:59, John Sessoms wrote: >> >> Yeah, I could see it being in between K-3 & K-z, but I just don't see it as >> the K-5's successor. >> >> From the specs, the only RAW format it offers is DNG. >> >> K-5: RAW (PEF, DNG), JPG (EXIF 2.21), DCF 2.0 compliant, DPOF, PIM III >> K-r: RAW (PEF, DNG), JPG (EXIF 2.21), DCF 2.0, DPOF, Print Image Matching >> III >> K-30: RAW (DNG), JPG (EXIF 2.3), DCF 2.0 compliant, DPOF, PIM III >> > > ..which brings to mind this question: Why bother with the PEF RAW format at > all anymore? Is there a single benefit? > > -Charles > > -- > Charles Robinson - charl...@visi.com > Minneapolis, MN > http://charles.robinsontwins.org > http://www.facebook.com/charles.robinson > > > -- > 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. -- 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.
