There is some scepticism toward Adobe and formats, like PDF is not necessarily compatible. So er cannot know for sure, and as long as I have an extra disc it is better to be safe.
DagT Sendt fra min iPad Den 26. okt. 2012 kl. 13:36 skrev Bruce Walker <[email protected]>: > "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 > <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> 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 >>> [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. > > > > -- > -bmw > > -- > 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.
