We have a new baby in our family, a Panasonic DMC-FZ30, Kari1's new toy.
So she goes out and shoots in RAW, we get home and can't view the images on anything supplied with the camera or in Paintshop Pro 7. PsP can handle RAW but it asks you for header size and a whole lot of other stuff. We opened the file in PsP and got greyscal streaks on the screen - nice art but nothing like a picture.
All Help says is, "the complexities of explaining RAW are beyond this help file, get the information from the source that creates the file" OoooK .. what information?
So we're sort of stuck about what we need. At the moment, nothing we have can convert the file to anything usable. I know this is a dumb question but can anyone chart a simple path through what we need to be doing here please
If you are on a PC and would like to be able to open the pictures the way you normally would (by double clicking on the icon), then you can go to the Microsoft website and download Microsoft RAW Image Viewer.
It works just like Windows Picture and Fax Viewer.
But if you want to edit them, you will need an editting program.
This only works for Nikon and Canon cameras. It doesn't have the coding necissary to read other formats (Microsoft has some kind of deal with Nikon and Canon). Each camera brand uses it's own RAW format, and each camera within a brand records it slightly differently. Because of this you need to make sure whatever software your using supports and/or is updated to support your specific camera (both brand and model).
To all involved, Picasa2 from google downloads and views most RAW files just fine.
Please correct me if I am mistaken, but Picasa will allow you to make changes and it automatically saves those changes without asking you as soon as you make them.
That is not cool at all so I quit using it and do not recommend using it for anything.
I am having trouble too. My computer isn't downloading the raw images, just the jpg. Why?
Mandy,
Sounds like you are linking the camera to the computer with the cable supplied by Canon. When using this link, you can't see/transfer RAW files unless you are using the Canon software. You really should invest in a card reader, the transfer will be soooo much faster.
To all involved, Picasa2 from google downloads and views most RAW files just fine.
Please correct me if I am mistaken, but Picasa will allow you to make changes and it automatically saves those changes without asking you as soon as you make them.
That is not cool at all so I quit using it and do not recommend using it for anything.
NO, that is incorrect. Those changes are databased within Picasa, but are not applied or saved over the original. It treats all your images as negatives and never writes to those files EVER. It does certainly LOOK like it applies them permanetly, and my wife freaked out about it too. But it does not.
I also agree with Kirbic, USB2.0 card reader is an absolutely awesome thing to have (especailly after having used a 1.0 reader for a year)
//www.irfanview.com is free and will allow you to view and convert RAW images at a primitive level as well; but it's not a full-featured RAW converter. It will do as a stopgap to let you transfer these images to PSP and work with them there. It's also an excellent, FAST image file-viewing program.
Just an update ... and thanks to everybody whose posted replies ... we've needed all that info so far.
At the moment, we have installed RawShooterEssentials which can see the file but not display it. From what's been said, if each manufacturer sets their own standard (and how stupid is that if they don't supply a reader/converter) then we may need to find the Panasonic interface.
I knew it would come to this, last resort, .... RTFM.
At the moment, we have installed RawShooterEssentials which can see the file but not display it. From what's been said, if each manufacturer sets their own standard (and how stupid is that if they don't supply a reader/converter) then we may need to find the Panasonic interface.
I knew it would come to this, last resort, .... RTFM.
Brett
Brett,
Try Picassa before you give up. Though I'm not crazy about the databased editing that wavelength described, I would guess Picassa might be the best bet for 3rd party software that will support your specific camera. I say this because it's distributed by Google, who are totally in the business of helping people rather than corporations so they're likely to be trying to support everything they can rather than making deals with Nikon and Canon to only support them (like the microsoft RAW viewer).
Also another thought...it would be totally lame for them to package an old software release with the camera, but have you checked for updates for the Panasonic software?
You can also use Google's Picasa I think to manage them. If you have a PC wait for Adobe's Lightroom to come out, if you have a Mac, try Aperture it looks awesome :) !
You can also use Google's Picasa I think to manage them. If you have a PC wait for Adobe's Lightroom to come out, if you have a Mac, try Aperture it looks awesome :) !
This thread has been terrific everyone. The biggest revelation has been that not all RAW is created equal and that everyone has their own pet version - stupid stupid stupid!
I'm starting to get a head of steam up on this. Panasonic have sold us a camera that shoots in RAW but provides no way of converting them to a TIFF, PSP, PCD or anything else other than a JPEG ... which the camera produces at image-capture anyway! .
Ray, that software you mentioned is made by Microsoft and will only work with Canon and Nikon RAW files. A perfect example of this lunacy. Grrrrrr
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If you are on a PC and would like to be able to open the pictures the way you normally would (by double clicking on the icon), then you can go to the Microsoft website and download Microsoft RAW Image Viewer.
It works just like Windows Picture and Fax Viewer.
But if you want to edit them, you will need an editting program.
The RAW Image Viewer only works on certain Nikon and Canon RAW formats.
