Originally posted by OrenMc I use Element 5 to PP. I could very easily be doing somehting wrong. I don't remember what program I installed before, I believe it was Codec though. But it just seemed to take forever to load the PEF file. Jpeg was of course faster. It really doesn't take that long to go through the jpegs and view and delete before I do whatever PP needed. I convert to tiff if I am saving.
Like I said, I may be making this much harder than it has to be. Thats how I am sometimes
Ok, I see something and I will make a suggestion. Going from JPEG to TIFF is like printing a picture then running it through your scanner. I am not sure about Elements 5, the last version of Elements I used was 2.0, but I think you can still download Camera Raw 4.6. It has support for PEFs, including the Km (K2000). Now using Camera Raw is different than the codec. You do not have to install the codec to use PEFs in Elements. The codec allows Windows to view thumbnails of the PEFs like it already knows how to do with JPEG, TIFF, GIF, PNG and other formats. With the codec installed you could slide your SDHC card into a reader and explore its contents to see which ones you want to PP in Elements, That shouldn't take much longer than what you are doing currently. Select your PEF files, copy to your HDD, edit in Elements, save finished images as JPEG.
The good thing about editing PEFs is that all photo adjustments are reversible. Editing JPEGs modifies the data directly. So if you ever wanted to change the way you PPed a file at a later date PEF allows you to start from where you left off or a start fresh or even somewhere in between.
But don't think I am trying to convince you to use PEF. There are people smarter than me that can explain why using RAW files is better than the alternatives, a Google search will reveal countless articles that explain why a RAW based workflow is beneficial. Either way have fun and take lots of images.