PEF raw (K7) not opening in PS cs3

Anyone else had this?

Changing from K10D to K7 I find that the raw PEF files from the K7 don't open in PS cs3.
Also niether PEF nor DNG files from the K7 open in Acdsee 10 photo manager!
I had no problem with the K10D
Is there some 'Update' available for these two programs?

Any help appreciated

Michael

I had the same thing using the K5 in CS3. Apparently Adobe will only update CS4 and 5 for new cameras, not as far back as CS3. I switched to shooting DNG raw and that works fine.

The minimum Camera Raw plug-in version required is 5.4 for the K7, but the maximum for CS3 is 4.6.
As Barrie said shoot in DNG.

John

DNG it is then.....what about Acdsee 10? I don't use it for editing but it's great for organising.

Michael

It's probably not much use to you, but for Linux users, both Shotwell and the more fully-featured DigiKam will open both PEF and DNG files. Both are free, too.

Now that I realise that PEF files offer no significant space saving over DNG, I use the latter format anyway.

Tom

Interesting.

I always shot DNG files, but since finding out PEFs are much smaller than the DNGs our of the cam I now shoot in PEF. I save even more space by converting them with the Adobe DNG converter after importing to the computer.

For some reason DNGs straight out of the Pentax cams are big ( possible becuase of a full size jog preview? ), so converting from DNG to DNG reduce their size, but converting PEF to DNG reduced size even further.

Use the adobe DNG converter to convert your already shot PEFs to DNG.

Adobe DNG converter????

What and where is that and how do I use it?

Its a freeby from Adobe:
link

You just open it, and then go to the folder of files you want to convert - and press the go button!

Hope that helps

Andy

Many thanks Andy, very helpful!

Regards, Michael