On May 5, 2007, at 12:10 PM, Maris V. Lidaka Sr. wrote: > My Pentax K10D has arrived - photos today, or maybe tomorrow. > PEF or DNG - which do you use, and why? (or why not?)
Before Lightroom 1.0 and Camera Raw v3.7 were released, I captured exclusively in RAW/DNG format. The K10D's DNG format is uncompressed, however, so now that my primary tools are capable of reading both PEF and DNG, I capture in RAW/PEF and then convert on import from the card to DNG format. That means on a 2G card I have room for 20-30 more exposures and on disk I take up the least space (and don't have to manage sidecar .xmp files). It has been shown that PEF in camera slows down sequence capture by a small but measurable percentage, likely the extra processing time required for compression coming into play, so if you're doing a lot of sequences you'll get a tiny bit better performance with RAW/DNG setting. Godfrey -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
