"Peter Loveday" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >My only complaint is that the 12 bit data is padded to 16 bit. This makes >the raw file bigger than it needs to be; they are over 12MB, where they >should only need to be 9MB or so. This reduces storage on CF, and slows >write times, seemingly unnecesarily. If anyone at Pentax is listening, >please could we have non-padded PEF files?
ISTR that the Canon 10D (6-megapixel) RAW files are also 12MB - I think it was Tom Van Veen who told me that and I wondered at the time why they weren't 9MB. (Am I remembering this correctly, Tom?) -- Mark Roberts Photography and writing www.robertstech.com
