[Digikam-users] Pentax PEF vs DNG in digikam

[Karl Günter Wünsch]

On 09/27/11 14:37, sleepless wrote:
> Hi list,
> 
> If I convert my PEF files to DNG, they look very different. DNG looks
> darker.
> It is both the same image, both RAW and both lossless. I think it should
> look the same. Can someone explain why it does not.
Because the conversion PEF to DNG loses meta data which will determine
how the image will be processed. In this context the conversion is a
lossy one!
regards
Karl Günter