IIRC the *ist-D gave a choice between .PEF and .TIF; beginning with the
K10D the choice was .PEF & .DNG
I don't think Adobe had yet come up with their .DNG format when I got my
*ist-D in early 2004.
I went to Iraq with a PZ-1p, a whole lot of film and a Nikon film
scanner ... and just barely in time for the deployment the *ist-D
As it turned out there was no way for me to get the film processed while
I was in Iraq - other than to mail it home to the U.S. and wait for the
negatives or transparencies to return to my APO address - so without the
*ist-D I would have been SOL.
The Nikon scanner came bundled with Photoshop Version 5 and while I was
in Iraq I acquired a copy of Photoshop Version 7. And (again IIRC) the
first version of Adobe Camera Raw & Adobe Bridge was released during
that time (mid-2004)
Looking in Wikipedia, Adobe PhotoshopCS was released in October 2003 and
ACR/Bridge for Photoshop 7 must have been released later to maintain
compatibility or something. Anyway, I got them for free sometime in
mid-2004 about the same time the DNG converter came out.
While I was in Iraq I was still trying to understand digital and I sort
of fumbled back and forth between .JPG, .TIF & .PEF. I really wish I'd
known what I was doing at the time. I would have shot straight .PEF.
When I got back stateside I bought a shrink-wrap retail copy of
PhotoshopCS in April 2005 & when CS2 was released in May 2005 Adobe
allowed me a free upgrade.
I shot mostly .PEF until the K20D came out when I finally switched to
.DNG as my raw format.
I still have & occasionally still use the Nikon scanner. With ViewScan I
can save the scanned files as .DNG
On 9/23/2026 12:49 PM, John Francis wrote:
On Wed, Sep 23, 2026 at 11:41:02AM -0400, John Sessoms wrote:
One underrated advantage of the 'K' series cameras (Starting I think with
the K10D) was the ability to shoot DNG as the raw file. No worries whether
the latest version of Adobe Camera Raw would support the RAW file format for
new cameras
Yep. The *ISTD used .PEF as the raw format, but the K10D switched to .DNG
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