Originally posted by zxaar the downside to pef is that you got to open everyfile to see if you want to process it or not. Often opening it also opens up an intermediate dialog and it also take up some time to go to photoshop. If you got to do this thing for all 500 or more files you shot in that day you end up wasting lot of time with files those were throw aways.
If it were only jpeg, window file preview browser take one click to display next file.
This was the reason I did not shoot raw with k100d.
kx shoots both so i browse with jpeg and process selected raws.
Further I do not agree that processing raws is any faster, but raw definitely give more flexiblity and it is good idea to keep raw files of selected important photos.
File management is definite headache if files are more, it be jpeg or raw.
Really, none of those things actually work out to be significant with just a little learning about the software. With an easy codec update, my Windows Vista views PEF files as easily as jpegs. With my XP machines, the same was done by associating the PEF files with Fastone--free and very easy to use.
You do not have to see the intermediate dialogue in Photoshop if you batch process. In addition, you can batch process using Photoshop auto settings, which I find to be accurate more often than the Pentax AWB, and you can substitute superior software like Noise Ninja or Noiseware for the camera's noise reduction software, and you can substitute sharpening software tweaked just the way you want it.
Shooting both formats and having a few more files really wouldn't cause any significant problem to me, but I can see it might be a minor annoyance to some. I have used Photoshop so many years that it seems as natural a part of the flow as developing film did. Perhaps if I were not using Photoshop, processing the raw files would not seem as simple.