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rpsawin

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I shot with my M8 yesterday and made the above selection. When I downloaded the files from the card to my computer all I found was JPEGs. I expected to have DNGs and JPEGs...what am I missing (other than the DNGs)?

 

Thanks in advance,

 

Bob

 

BTW...I am using CS5 for my pp software.

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After choosing to create both JPGs and DNG, you perhaps neglected to press "SET" to finalize the setting.

 

Howard,

 

I am fairly sure I did that but it's worth checking to be certain. I'll try again making sure I hit "set" and see what happens.

 

Thanks,

 

Bob

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Bob--

I've done it again and again. I'd swear I had finalized the selection, but the results prove otherwise.

 

That's just a first guess, off the cuff. I hope the answer is that simple. :(

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It is so easy to mess up. I can't remember, but I think if the selection changes from a long outline to a short one, then the selection has been "set".

 

Often in my hast I see it there, but forget to "set" it and therefore it does not take. Even after a year I sometimes forget to hit "set".

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I shoot DNG + JPEG with my M9. When I import images from my card into Aperture, the program asks which file formats (e.g. DNG only, JPEG as master, both DNG and JPEG, etc). is it possible there is an import setting in CS5 that specifies which files to import?

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I had a chance to go out yesterday and I selected DNG+JPEG. When I uploaded the files to my computer I had both. I must have just not hit "Set" the first time.

 

Thank you all for your comments.

 

Best regards,

 

Bob

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That's an easy mistake to make. I've done the same thing more often than I like to admit.

 

It’s a mistake that I make much more often with the M9 than the M8.

 

On the M8, I knew that I always had to press SET to display the menu of settings, then press it again to confirm a selected menu item.

 

But the most common setting change on the M9 is ISO, and this uses different rules – press and hold the ISO button, highlight the desired value, then release the ISO button.

 

I used to work in the aerospace industry and did some design work on man-machine interfaces. Having two sets of rules on a single control panel would have been considered as “an accident waiting to happen”. In the case of the M9, it’s a mistake waiting to happen.

 

On the M9, the one button that could usefully use a different rule from the others is the INFO button. The screen that is displayed contains no settings and only needs to be quickly glanced at. Push to illuminate and release to darken might have been a useful (user-selectable?) option.

 

But I think it better to have all control buttons following the same rule. A value that has to be confirmed after being selected should have a strong visual clue (change of colour or flashing on and off) that will remind the user that a further action is needed. The current visual cue (the value being contained in a small box) is a relatively weak one.

 

Best regards,

 

Doug

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