There is not much support from DxO for Pentax anway. That's the reason why I switched to ON1. And I will not go back - for sure! ON1 is a great software.
It is. But - it stores RAW. The converter still needs to know how to optimally handle RAW from each camera.
Nothing interesting will happen. It is still RAW data.
There is another speciality of DxO - they allow only files from certain cameras to be processed. If your camera is not supported the Software is dead for you. You have to wait until DxO made the profile for it - and if your software is from last generation you have to buy the new one. Maybe this aspect is even more important than the technical one ...
The technical one is still there. Sometimes. But, in the case mkII of K-1 it is, of course, pure nonsense.
I did work with K1 files on Lightroom 5.7.1 and still do sometimes. Works fine.
Yes, I know it works with Lightroom.
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Sorry, I don't know - I don't work with Photoshop. It was always too expensive for me - I worked with Paint Shop Pro for these kinds of manipulation - most times the RAW converters were enough for me.
Whatever.
Anything which can DNG should convert normal files. Some features (Pixel shift and HDR) need special processing. Some maker note data will be ignored. So there is "core operation" and "maximum camera understanding".
Core operation might not be enough to make a good image. Seems like DXO might have some quality requirements. Maybe.
Not really. In a single image DNG you have 4 tiff pages for red, green1, blue, green2. Anything can de-mosaic them. Then you have some colour information which is standard over all DNGs. Then you have maker notes where most fields found on the K1 are unchanged from the K5 (possibly the K7 ... at some point the ID changed from AOC to Pentax - but the data is the same). Then you have lens distortion, fringing and vignetting which can all be manually controlled. Software which reads in DNG files doesn't need to know anything about the source that created it, it just saves you work if it can read more of the fields in the maker notes.
Not always.
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ACR in Photoshop 6 won't take PEF files from my K-1, so I had to switch to DNG. Now I wonder if it will read DNG files from a K-1II if I get one, or if I get my K-1 upgraded.
"Abandoning" may be a polite term. I would rather think of "sabotage" - which is more logical in the framework of maximum profit...
We have the same thing in hardware business.
I have an old laptop that still has Photoshop 7 on it. I recall that PS7 was the first version that had Camera Raw available. That was in 2001 or thereabouts.
