[airsniper]

Hi, everyone! I've been using Pentax PHOTO Laboratory (PLL) and Lightroom (LR) for about 1 month. There're some problems really confused me. Can anyone answer them? Thank you!

1. My most confusing problem: The JPEG files exported from PLL and LR are so different from each other... The JPEG generated by LR is really bad by its default value. I tried to use DNG as RAW file, but it doesn't work. I love the image tone of PLL, however, it has so many drawbacks (I'll talk about this later) that makes me have to choose Lightroom. Anyone know how can I produce PLL-like JPEG in Lightroom? is there a bunch of Lightroom presets that can mimic the image-tone in PLL?

2. Drawbacks of PLL: The Preview window can not be enlarged, thus it is extremely difficult to use it as a processing software, any ideas to improve this?

3. There seems to be no difference between Landscape and Picture (Landscape), but why are they two different image-tone as listed in PLL?

4. PLL tends to generate a EXIF item called Component Config, and the value is YCbcr, what does this mean?

5. Lightroom: it seems that it changes EXIF a lot. First, the time is set to 00:00:00; Second, Color Space information is missing in EXIF, thus a lot of other softwares have to use sRGB instead. This is not a big deal since I used sRGB 99% of the time, but it do confused me since only lightroom (and surprisingly Windows Picture Viewer) can interpret the color space in the right way.

I've had a lot of problems on lightroom, just can't remember them one by one. I really appreciate that anyone can answer, at least part of my question. Thank you very much!