.PEF RAW to highest quality .JPG

[mc866]

I have a K100d and I shoot RAW, but when converting to JPG I seem to loose more quality than I anticipated. What program do you guys use to convert and ensure you keep as much quality as possible? Looking for something free if possible. I have Gimp and FastStone image viewer and I know they do it.

 

[alexruiz]

Rawshooter is free and works wonders Its parent company was bought by adobe, but you can still find rawshooter on the web. Just google it.

It doesn't support the K100D natively, but a simple hex editor change is all you need as the .PEF files of the K100D are the same as the *ist. Even better, use the RAW converter by adobe (3.6 or similar) to change the .PEF to a .DNG

What is worng with the pentax photo lab 3? It does a decent job.


K100D owner here too

 

[mc866]

Photolab works, I guess I was just looking to see if anyone had better results from other programs.

 

[magomago]

There was a thread on dpreview about this. A guy compared the latest lightroom to ppl, and surprisingly the quality from ppl was better.

the only problem is having to use pentax photolab

and yes, k100d owner as well =)

 

[JETninja]

Good info, not tried RAW yet but plan too soon as I redo the main pc (new large HD and reload XP Pro....) and load Adobe CS Suite, Pentax and other programs.

Brand new K200D!