Up till now, with my K20, I've still been shooting in PEF because they're the same bits and the files are smaller. What am I missing?
-T On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 4:14 PM, Bob W <[email protected]> wrote: > Enjoy! > > >> Well, y'all finally shamed me into shooting in DNG. Up until now, > I've been >> shooting almost exclusively in JPG. The few raw shots I have taken were >> throw-away shots I simply discarded out of hand. But, tonight, I decided > to >> check try out the DNG + JPG function while taking shots of the family >> Thanksgiving feast. >> >> You see, quite a few of the reviews I read before buying my K-x lauded its >> jpeg engine, stating that you don't really give up much at all by using it >> instead of RAW. So, in the interest of conserving relatively scarce > storage >> space and computer resources, I never really bothered. >> >> Well, I'm here to say -- and feel free to pass this along to anyone who > ever >> wrote a review of the K-x making that claim -- that they're huge liars > (I'm >> looking at YOU dpreview!). I'm quite simply astonished at the difference, >> and kicking myself over the fact that it took me over >> 7000 clicks to realize it. Of those 7000 shots, I shudder to think how > many >> were deleted that could have easily been salvaged. >> >> Ah, well ... live and learn. But, damn ... so many shots. (sob) >> >> -- Walt >> >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> 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 > [email protected] > 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 [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
