Originally posted by Kim C Hi, I'm enjoying my K1 which arrived today but I have come across one problem. Adobe is trying to push everyone toward the cloud. So no further updates will be issued for Photoshop CS6. This hasn't been a problem as it supported all the Pentax PEF formats up to the K3. However, it won't read the ones from the K1. Also been using LR5. Again no support for the K1 and I would need to buy or rent LR6.
However, both will read the files if saved in DNG format in the K1. Has anybody noticed any real difference in saving Pentax files in DNG rather than PEF?
Kim
I'm not quite understanding. It's the most recent camera available, so no surprise that old applications don't work well with it. Such is life with a digital camera; you need to even update the freeby utility Ricoh provides in order to use it with the K-1. We Pentaxians actually have it pretty good; even with Olympus I've had to wait, and since it didn't do DNG in the camera I had to go through all that conversion to DNG. Ugh.
Meanwhile, Adobe provides a free utilty to create DNGs from PEFs, although why? when you can just shoot a DNG from the camera? I don't think the PEFs are any different in any significant way that a user could see in real life, although I'd qualify that for some of the specialized features: like maybe in camera HDR (if you can even generate a PEF or DNG), and maybe for pixel shift, although my pixel shift DNGs had no material difference to DNGs on my K-3II. And of course there's the issue of sidecar vs embedded metadata, and the extra feature DNG provides for data validation.
And as for "pushing," in your case you need to upgrade anyway. Subscribers have already received Adobe upgrades for Camera RAW for the K-1. But Ps in the Photography Plan is FAR cheaper than what we paid for CS6 Ps or Ps Extended, so that's fortunate.