Thanks for your ideas. I'll investigate all as well as Syncomatic.
re: the whole RAW/camera original/DNG debate (which I don't really engage in)...
any DNG conversion which deletes the camera original, chills me to the marrow -
... I just viewed a wonderful interview with Antonin Kratochvil, one of the more compelling and influential photographers working today. In the interview, he speaks eloquently about his approach to image-making and makes a throw-away comment that he shoots jpegs because he can get more images on the card. :-) Some work, some don't! Many paths to the same end...
It's worth a few minutes:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=n4Lfx8fh8_E