Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/07/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thanks Herb, Philippe and Howard for your latest messages. I conclude that black magic is at play and will live with it. Cheers, Nathan Nathan Wajsman Alicante, Spain http://www.frozenlight.eu http://www.greatpix.eu PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/ YNWA On Jul 2, 2014, at 10:46 PM, Herbert Kanner wrote: > Nathan, > > Until recently, I had LR convert my Lumix RAW to DNG on import. I was > annoyed to find that the Mac programs that displayed RAW/DNG would not > display these converted DNGs. Since DNG is allegedly a standard, I found > this to be kind of puzzling, especially because these programs would > display the Lumix RAW. > > Then someone said that having LR convert to and store DNG was just a waste > of time, and that I should just have it COPY to my negative file. It > always converts to DNG or some compressed equivalent on the fly when > importing. That should solve your massive file program, assuming the the > RAW is smaller than this weirdly converted DNG. > > Herb > > > Herbert Kanner > kanner at acm.org > 650-326-8204 > > Question authority and the authorities will question you. > > > > > On Jul 2, 2014, at 12:28 AM, Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu> > wrote: > >> I have only had my Fuji X-Pro 1 for a couple of years, so those of you >> who know my indifference towards technical details will not be surprised >> that I discovered only this week that the DNG pictures (once converted >> from RAW by Lightroom) from the Fuji are huge, 50-60 MB. This compares to >> the Leica M8 at around 7-8 MB. I shoot RAW only (i.e. no RAW+JPG, pure >> RAW for me thank you), and while I suppose the X-Pro 1 has more >> megapixels than the M8, I don't think it is that many more. >> >> Have others who have the Fuji X cameras noticed the same thing? >> >> Good thing storage is cheap these days. >> >> Cheers, >> Nathan >> >> Nathan Wajsman >> Alicante, Spain >> http://www.frozenlight.eu >> http://www.greatpix.eu >> PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws >> Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/ >> >> YNWA >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >