The New Raw Programs (Page 2): I am not at all familiar with Canon or Sony or others but, I would be shocked to learn that they didn't have their in house software for their raw files.

Rich1939 Loc: Pike County Penna.

HOT Texas wrote:

I don't shoot Nikon, but yes there always a way around it.

I am not at all familiar with Canon or Sony or others but, I would be shocked to learn that they didn't have their in house software for their raw files.

HOT Texas Loc: From the Heart of Texas

Rich1939 wrote:

I am not at all familiar with Canon or Sony or others but, I would be shocked to learn that they didn't have their in house software for their raw files.

Far as I know they all have in house software for their raw files.

jmvaugh Loc: Albuquerque

So I guess there is a benefit to “keepin’ what I got” and waiting to buy until you can get refurbished....by which time most post processing software has the chance to update. Or for the truly frugal amongst us, buy a gently used previous model.

joer Loc: Colorado/Illinois

Rich1939 wrote:

On the other hand, there those of us who are slow updating their cameras. Real slow. like months or years.

Keep in mind that software companies are stuck at the starting line until they receive input from the camera mfg .

I don't think 3rd party software companies get any help from camera companies. They have to reverse engineer it themselves and that takes time.

royb_36-cox.net Loc: Phoenix

jerryc41 wrote:

Aurora and On1 have introduced software to deal with raw files. What will happen when a new model camera is introduced? Will users have to wait for them to catch up, as with PS? That would seem to be the only course of action available to them.

One option, since the new camera always comes with updated software from the camera Mfg. and that software either comes with the camera or can be immediately download from the camera company, simply convert the RAW files to tiff which contain 99% of the RAW file information and though the files are normally larger than the Raw file they can be used with any software program until conversion for the RAW file is available. Sorry for the long sentence, you can take a breath before you finish it.

Rich1939 Loc: Pike County Penna.

royb_36-cox.net wrote:

One option, since the new camera always comes with updated software from the camera Mfg. and that software either comes with the camera or can be immediately download from the camera company, simply convert the RAW files to tiff which contain 99% of the RAW file information and though the files are normally larger than the Raw file they can be used with any software program until conversion for the RAW file is available. Sorry for the long sentence, you can take a breath before you finish it.

?? If you are not able to pen the raw file, how can you convert it?

jmvaugh Loc: Albuquerque

Rich1939 wrote:

?? If you are not able to pen the raw file, how can you convert it?

The manufacturers software allows you to open the new RAW file onto whichever computer you’re downloading the RAW files. I don’t have experience with other manufacturers, but Canon gives you a program specifically for downloading, and then Digital Photography Pro (DPP) that opens the RAW and allows you to edit. You can then export as TIFF.

There’s a small inconvenience penalty for being the first kid on the block with the latest and greatest toy, unfortunately. But the camera makers usually do give us a work around.

rehess Loc: South Bend, Indiana, USA

Rich1939 wrote:

?? If you are not able to open the raw file, how can you convert it?

If software is asked to open a file of a format/type it is not familiar with, it should refuse. Normally that refusal is what is meant by "I could not open the file" - the file's contents could be accessed if only the proper software could be found. The term "JPEG" refers to one file type, but the term "raw" refers to a whole group of types, so the issue with a "raw" type is finding the right software - in this case, finding software which knows how to convert from one "raw" type to some other type.

Rich1939 Loc: Pike County Penna.

jmvaugh/rehess
Gentlemen, I threw that out to provoke thought and further response as the first post intimated that users of new cameras were floundering because they couldn't process their raw files.

jmvaugh Loc: Albuquerque

Yes, I too take a long time to upgrade a camera and put off buying an upgrade to software for my hobbies. Canon’s free software helped tide me over until I bought the upgrade for PSP and until I got the correct plugin for Corel AfterShot.