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I'm afraid there is nonetheless still a problem here. Even though Faststone is an excellent image browser/jpeg editor we all (or almost all) know and love, it was never intended to be a RAW...

If by "read" you mean process/develop raw besides viewing, Canon's own solution is DPP (Digital Photo Professional), which is both an image browser and a JPEG/raw basic but effective editor. It's...

Wow! You just showed that, notwithstanding the humongous zoom, your lens is sharp enough for a drastic "emergency" crop. Nice work (and hopefully nobody died during the making of this panorama :-) )

I know what you mean and I thank you for the reminder. It happens that I wasn't really thinking about anything with the breadth of scope of CHDK, which means added functionality — but rather about...

Indeed. G12 was released fall 2010, next was G15 fall 2012, so it's reasonable to expect a G17 (sic) fall 2014. As for myself, two weeks ago I decided not to wait and I find it extremely unlikely...

Military applications, perhaps? According to their abstract, "the architecture can be used for capturing images of visible and other spectra such as infrared, or millimeter waves, in surveillance...

No. Here's the manual  (the user guide, not the focus :-) )

They don't work with phase-detection autofocus as they... filter out phases linearly, so to speak, and thus, depending on their orientation, can interfere with the PDAF...

Even though DPR itself has said something along these lines ("cons : matt surface a little prone to scratches"), I believe it might prove wise to check sources —that is, "people" who?— given this...

Agreed; actually, it's a heck of a lot of info given that the reviewer is still in the process of "aiming for" the camera. When one becomes able to do a "hands-off" camera review, it must say...

Augustin, have you by chance tried shrinking the AF-sensitive area to further speed up your "thru the fence" focusing procedure? (It is possible when in "flexizone" mode, not face detection or...

A: Easy, uh? Do a headstand. Use a fast shutter speed to allow for some wobbliness. And, needless to say, you'll need to flip the photo upside down, err... downside up, in PP. Alternatively, those...

Parallax effect must be taken into account. (It's like the difference between the views thru the OVF and the LCD, you can never take their convergence for granted). To me G15's focus-assist lamp...

A truly poetic memento mori.

Ironically as it may seem, it happens that Adobe itself affirms here, "You don’t have to [buy a new version of Photoshop or Lightroom just to get the latest camera support]. Adobe provides...

And if Nikon improved the operational speed (and maybe put a built-in lens cap...) it would have obliterated the G15! Yup, these 2 are avoiding a direct fight with each other indeed :-)

Are you sure they were shot in 4:3? If said lines appear only in CR2 thumbnails, this means they simply tell you where the image as seen by the sensor (whose "native" aspect ratio is 4:3) was...

Well, as for myself I've been learning a heck of a lot in these forums, so it's really gratifying when (and if) something I say proves a wee bit useful/interesting to someone. Now, a minor...

Even though Faststone is an excellent image browser/jpeg editor, it was never intended to be a RAW converter. So I'm afraid a TIFF it saves from the CR2 is actually rendered from the JPG preview...

I assume you mean that the LR3 message now refers to the DNG's (not the CR2's, which were the issue before using the converter). If so, you must make sure the DNG's the converter generates are...