Currently my import workflow goes something like this:
- Put 4GB SDHC card in card reader
- Open up Pentax Photo Browser, find card in the file browser
- Select all images
- Right click and select 'Save as DNG'
- Select a save destination of a folder on my desktop called 'dng'
- Wait a while as it churns away
- When it completes, open up Adobe DNG Converter
- Select the 'dng' folder for the input
- Select another folder called 'dng-out' for the output
- Click 'convert'
- Wait some more
- Now open up Lightroom
- Select 'Import Photos from Disk'
- Browse to the 'dng-out' folder and select all
- Continue with a normal Lightroom import
This is a long and tedious process unfortunately :(
After doing all the filesize tests in the last post though, it looks like the difference of 10mb per image doesn't add up. Shooting PEF gives me 169 images on a 4GB card, shooting DNG gives me 168. What's up with that?
I think next time I go out shooting I'll do DNG and convert to the smaller Adobe DNG in the Lightroom import... eliminating everything above between "put card in reader" and "open Lightroom". I think that any differences in download speed would be negated by the fact it's one step and not 15! :)
2 comments:
Why not just
Put 4GB SDHC card in card reader
open up Lightroom
Select 'Import'
?
Because (currently) Lightroom doesn't handle K20D PEF files :( The 1.4 update did work, but it was pulled :( I could shoot DNG but the images are 30% larger than PEF.
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