Originally posted by Gooshin reason i ask is that when i got my K20D i was presented with the option of DNG or PEF and flipped it into DNG because i use Adobe and AFAIK DNG is Adobe's creation, so one would assume that image manipulation using adobe tools would be... better? more accurate?
but PEF is there for a reason right? also its smaller.
i would be really curious if working in PEF using Adobe products yields a less quality product than DNG
all the while considering that at the end of the day were converting into jpeg's .
Both formats are completely lossless, so there is no advantage or disadvantage whatsoever to one or the other, with one exception:
DNG is not compressed at all (It can be but Pentax cameras don't do it)
PEF is losslessly compressed - More pictures on your card