PESO: My First Lightroom Rendering with question

[Christine Aguila]

Thanks Godfrey, Ann, Paul, Derby, Rick, Peter:

Yes, I did do one tutorial at the Adobe site.  I did it after I fooled 
around with this shot; it made the tutorial more meaningful since I had 
played with sliders etc.  I couldn't believe what I was seeing in the 
tutorial.  (I can do that? Wow! etc)  I did desiderate this a lot on 
purpose.  The original lettering on the boat was orange!  I also 
purposefully applied a vignette.  It was a very cloudy day when my husband & 
I went for our riverboat ride.  Thanks Godfrey, for the PEF/DNG response. 
It helped a lot.  Before investing in Lightroom, I think I have to get my 
harddrive back-up situation all sorted out.  Blazing Bally-Wag, that'll be 
another dent in this lady's handbag!
Thanks again, everyone.
Cheers, Christine



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Godfrey DiGiorgi" <ramarren at mac.com>
To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <pdml at pdml.net>
Sent: Monday, April 07, 2008 10:57 PM
Subject: Re: PESO: My First Lightroom Rendering with question


> On Apr 7, 2008, at 7:17 PM, Christine Aguila wrote:
>>
>> small
>> http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=7143990
>>
>> larger
>> http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=7143990&size=lg
>
> Very nice.
>
>> Anyway, here's the question:  do you primarily shoot PEFs or DNGs
>> since
>> Lightroom does PEFs?  Any preferences or does it even matter.  This
>> shot is
>> a DNG.
>
> I have the K10D set to capture in PEF format. When I import to
> Lightroom, I have it convert to DNG on the fly directly from card to
> computer hard drive, and make a backup copy of the PEFs on a RAW
> archive drive. (With *ist D and *ist DS files, the DNGs would be
> about 40% smaller than the native camera PEFs, but on the K10D the
> PEFs are losslessly compressed so they end up about the same size.)
>
> The resulting DNG files process identically to the PEFs. The
> difference is in how Lightroom stores the editing information when
> you elect the "Metadata->Save to File" command or if you have it set
> to automatically sync the metadata into the files. With PEF files,
> the metadata is written to a .XMP sidecar file in the same directory
> as the PEF file. With DNG files the metadata is appended to the .DNG
> file. This makes the DNG format files a little easier to manage as
> you cannot accidentally lose your metadata edits.
>
> Godfrey
>
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