"I should have kept the PEF files." -- said by no-one, ever. :-) I do what Alastair does. I've shot raws since 2007 and I've tossed out all the PEFs, keeping only the converted DNGs (some 37,000 of them).
DNG is essentially a superset of PEF and they are both lossless formats. DNG has wide industry support, and is a de facto standard. PEF is unique to Pentax and Pentax supports both. On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 3:17 AM, Alastair Robertson <kiwibiolog...@gmail.com> wrote: > I routinely convert my PEF's into DNG's on import into lightroom (and > throw away the PEF at that time) and have the lightroom catalog set to > write the metadata into the DNG. That way, if the files are moved > from one catalog to another, the keywords, develop settings etc go > with them without the need to import from catalog. I have no worries > about the DNG format continued to being supported - there must be a > lot more people using DNG than PEF in the world! > > Alastair > > On 26 October 2012 18:08, Boris Liberman <bori...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi! >> >> I've been thinking about this for a long time now. I have few tens of >> thousands of photos that were taken by *istD (PEF) or K10D (also PEF, shame >> on me). I could convert them to DNG and discard (is it smart?) the >> originals. >> >> Do you think it is a good idea? Do I need to worry about compatibility with >> various version of DNG format/Adobe DNG support? >> >> Thanks. >> >> Boris >> >> -- >> 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. -- -bmw -- 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.
