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Subject: [Leica] OT: Fuji X file sizes
From: photo at frozenlight.eu (Nathan Wajsman)
Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2014 22:56:41 +0200
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Thanks Herb, Philippe and Howard for your latest messages. I conclude that 
black magic is at play and will live with it.

Cheers,
Nathan

Nathan Wajsman
Alicante, Spain
http://www.frozenlight.eu
http://www.greatpix.eu
PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws
Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/

YNWA










On Jul 2, 2014, at 10:46 PM, Herbert Kanner wrote:

> Nathan,
> 
> Until recently, I had LR convert my Lumix RAW to DNG on import. I was 
> annoyed to find that the Mac programs that displayed RAW/DNG would not 
> display these converted DNGs. Since DNG is allegedly a standard, I found 
> this to be kind of puzzling, especially because these programs would 
> display the Lumix RAW.
> 
> Then someone said that having LR convert to and store DNG was just a waste 
> of time, and that I should just have it COPY to my negative file. It 
> always converts to DNG or some compressed equivalent on the fly when 
> importing. That should solve your massive file program, assuming the the 
> RAW is smaller than this weirdly converted DNG.
> 
> Herb
> 
> 
> Herbert Kanner
> kanner at acm.org
> 650-326-8204
> 
> Question authority and the authorities will question you.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Jul 2, 2014, at 12:28 AM, Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu> 
> wrote:
> 
>> I have only had my Fuji X-Pro 1 for a couple of years, so those of you 
>> who know my indifference towards technical details will not be surprised 
>> that I discovered only this week that the DNG pictures (once converted 
>> from RAW by Lightroom) from the Fuji are huge, 50-60 MB. This compares to 
>> the Leica M8 at around 7-8 MB. I shoot RAW only (i.e. no RAW+JPG, pure 
>> RAW for me thank you), and while I suppose the X-Pro 1 has more 
>> megapixels than the M8, I don't think it is that many more.
>> 
>> Have others who have the Fuji X cameras noticed the same thing?
>> 
>> Good thing storage is cheap these days.
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> Nathan
>> 
>> Nathan Wajsman
>> Alicante, Spain
>> http://www.frozenlight.eu
>> http://www.greatpix.eu
>> PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws
>> Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/
>> 
>> YNWA
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