That looks like a worthwhile expenditure Stefan, I'll have a look into the QPcard.

Graham

The Pef to DNG mystery is now solved, Stefan you were spot on regarding the camera profile. If I change the camera conversion options, the pink tinge changes dramatically. However to get the best result I have had to de-saturate the red spectrum slightly as non of the profiles are spot on.

Graham

Thanks Stefan,

I that is quite interesting, the results of the sharpness test using Capture One is very impressive, I have not encountered this package before.

Regards Graham

I did notice this morning, that when I opened a DNG file the Adobe Raw camera conversion section now offers me three choices; Embedded, Adobe Standard, Camera Standard. In the past I would have selected the Pentax Camera from the list, which option do I select now.

I only tend to change to sRGB when presenting web content.

Graham

When I started taking pictures I used photoshop excessively, trying to improve my very poor attempts at taking something better than a snap shot. Although still very much a beginner, I find that the amount of time out with my camera out ways by far my time spent in front if the computer. This is for me a better life balance. I used it as a crutch rather than improving my technique. Before everyone takes issue with me, I am not decrying the use of photoshop in any way, shape or form. In fact I love photoshop and am itching to learn more, but not at the expense of learning how to get the best out of my camera first and I have so much to learn.

Graham

Well I'm impressed with your tenacity Richard and Stefan I can see that I have a long way to go in getting things balanced properly on my home system. Since changing over to the DNG format the problem has not reoccurred, however I was confused a little over Ken Rockwell's comments regarding not using aRGB, only because I have had varying information from so many sources I am a little confused. In the past I have always taken images in aRGB and converted the to sRGB as the last step when preparing for website use rather than print. However as I understand Ken's approach he suggests that this is unnecessary due to only specialist printers supporting aRGB when using a full CMYK ink set. Is this the case or am I totally confused?

Well Richard that was very in depth and quite interesting. I often feel when these little gems are posted that we could do with a Pentax user WIKI on this site.

I really appreciate the effort, thanks.

Thanks Jon I am downloading the new firmware and will give that a go.

Thanks Richard,

I can see that I will have to look into raw file formats a little more. Do you know of any other differences between DNG & PEF that would make one format more preferable over another?


Graham

I have had a quick look around and found these two

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Although they may be a bit expensive, you could have a separate recorder and sync the sound later.