G1X RAW files won't open

tnphoto · Jan 20, 2012

RAW samples have been posted on two sites, both French:

http://www.focus-numerique.com/test-1354/compact-canon-g1-x-powershot-bruit-electronique-12.html

(click the first link marked "Vous pouvez également télécharger les fichiers Raw")

and

http://www.focus-numerique.com/test-1354/compact-canon-g1-x-powershot-exemples-photos-15.html
(click one of the "Télécharger le fichier raw" links)

Both sites allow you to download Canon CR2 RAW files. They will not open in Adobe Camera RAW 6.6, the current version. I get an error message:

"Could not complete your request because the file appears to be from a camera model which is not supported by the installed version of Camera Raw.
Please visit the Camera Raw help documentation for additional information."

Are the G1X's 14-bit RAW files incompatible with the current CR2 standard?

thill1111 · Jan 20, 2012

They usually have to release updates to ACR and other software to read raw files from new cameras.

Kung Pao Panda · Jan 20, 2012

Yes they will.
What version of ACR do you have?
RAW images open just fine and the images look pretty good IMHO.

Good luck.

tnphoto said:
RAW samples have been posted on two sites, both French:

http://www.focus-numerique.com/test-1354/compact-canon-g1-x-powershot-bruit-electronique-12.html

(click the first link marked "Vous pouvez également télécharger les fichiers Raw")

and

http://www.focus-numerique.com/test-1354/compact-canon-g1-x-powershot-exemples-photos-15.html
(click one of the "Télécharger le fichier raw" links)

Both sites allow you to download Canon CR2 RAW files. They will not open in Adobe Camera RAW 6.6, the current version. I get an error message:

"Could not complete your request because the file appears to be from a camera model which is not supported by the installed version of Camera Raw.
Please visit the Camera Raw help documentation for additional information."

Are the G1X's 14-bit RAW files incompatible with the current CR2 standard?

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Paul De Bra · Jan 20, 2012

The CR2 "standard" is not a single identical format used by all Canon cameras. One thing that is in almost every RAW file is the model name/number of the camera. ACR checks this model and if it's not in the list of supported cameras it won't open the file even though it could. I have for instance opened a Fuji XS-1 raw file after changing the XS-1 into X10 inside the file. The format was the same, bue ACR checks the camera model.

So you might be able to open the file after first binary editing it so the camera model becomes a supported model (with the CR2 format).

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worldcup1982 · Jan 20, 2012

I have opened them with Raw Therapee....then auto correction color and contrast in Elements....all i can say is WOW...details and details...full of...great sharpness...even the 15mm sample....

tnphoto said:
RAW samples have been posted on two sites, both French:

http://www.focus-numerique.com/test-1354/compact-canon-g1-x-powershot-bruit-electronique-12.html

(click the first link marked "Vous pouvez également télécharger les fichiers Raw")

and

http://www.focus-numerique.com/test-1354/compact-canon-g1-x-powershot-exemples-photos-15.html
(click one of the "Télécharger le fichier raw" links)

Both sites allow you to download Canon CR2 RAW files. They will not open in Adobe Camera RAW 6.6, the current version. I get an error message:

"Could not complete your request because the file appears to be from a camera model which is not supported by the installed version of Camera Raw.
Please visit the Camera Raw help documentation for additional information."

Are the G1X's 14-bit RAW files incompatible with the current CR2 standard?

PhilM oz · Jan 20, 2012

Len_Gee said:
Yes they will.
What version of ACR do you have?
RAW images open just fine and the images look pretty good IMHO.

ACR 6.6, Lightroom 3.6 & Lightroom 4 Beta all refuse to open the G1X raw images.

RawTherapee will open them; but the colors are all wrong.
Dcraw will convert them; but again all the colors are wrong.

Very curious as to how you opened them?

Phil.

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Barso · Jan 20, 2012

Just to add, Faststone Image Viewer opens them but again the colours were way off.

AngryCorgi · Jan 20, 2012

Anyone try out RPP (raw photo processor)? It's mac-only, but it sometimes succeeds where all else fail...until profiles for the others get written that is.
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Digital Click · Jan 20, 2012

Hi, can you please provide a link to the jpgs of these images or post them somewhere so that we can look?

DC

worldcup1982 said:
I have opened them with Raw Therapee....then auto correction color and contrast in Elements....all i can say is WOW...details and details...full of...great sharpness...even the 15mm sample....

tnphoto said:

RAW samples have been posted on two sites, both French:

http://www.focus-numerique.com/test-1354/compact-canon-g1-x-powershot-bruit-electronique-12.html

(click the first link marked "Vous pouvez également télécharger les fichiers Raw")

and

http://www.focus-numerique.com/test-1354/compact-canon-g1-x-powershot-exemples-photos-15.html
(click one of the "Télécharger le fichier raw" links)

Both sites allow you to download Canon CR2 RAW files. They will not open in Adobe Camera RAW 6.6, the current version. I get an error message:

"Could not complete your request because the file appears to be from a camera model which is not supported by the installed version of Camera Raw.
Please visit the Camera Raw help documentation for additional information."

Are the G1X's 14-bit RAW files incompatible with the current CR2 standard?

Click to expand...

worldcup1982 · Jan 20, 2012

PhilM oz wrote:
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PhilM oz said:
RawTherapee will open them; but the colors are all wrong.

go to color option and click no profile....colors will be wrong but much better..than all you have to do is color correction and auto contrast with photoshop...

worldcup1982 · Jan 20, 2012

i can...but it will take a little time...30 minutes i think (going to have dinner now...

)...and i dont know how to post them 100%..last time i tried the original didnt appear 100%..if someone tell me how to do it....

Digital Click said:
Hi, can you please provide a link to the jpgs of these images or post them somewhere so that we can look?

DC

worldcup1982 said:

I have opened them with Raw Therapee....then auto correction color and contrast in Elements....all i can say is WOW...details and details...full of...great sharpness...even the 15mm sample....

tnphoto said:

RAW samples have been posted on two sites, both French:

http://www.focus-numerique.com/test-1354/compact-canon-g1-x-powershot-bruit-electronique-12.html

(click the first link marked "Vous pouvez également télécharger les fichiers Raw")

and

http://www.focus-numerique.com/test-1354/compact-canon-g1-x-powershot-exemples-photos-15.html
(click one of the "Télécharger le fichier raw" links)

Both sites allow you to download Canon CR2 RAW files. They will not open in Adobe Camera RAW 6.6, the current version. I get an error message:

"Could not complete your request because the file appears to be from a camera model which is not supported by the installed version of Camera Raw.
Please visit the Camera Raw help documentation for additional information."

Are the G1X's 14-bit RAW files incompatible with the current CR2 standard?

Click to expand...

Click to expand...

worldcup1982 · Jan 20, 2012

Digital Click said:
Hi, can you please provide a link to the jpgs of these images or post them somewhere so that we can look?

here it goes...remember, unsharp mask was disable in raw therapee, so this is pure conversion...and courtesy of QUESABESDE...Not my pictures....
SCENE..not full size

Crops...100%

i have yet to see if dpreview uploading doesnt hurt the file quality....

hope that helps...

Nell27 · Jan 20, 2012

Not sure about opening the raw files but I'm a little surprised with the pictures posted at that site.

None of the shots looked like anything special and the portrait of the girl is down right bad.

On top of that sky is blown out in every shot.

Either the photographer didn't know what they were doing or the camera isn't as good as it appeared to be at other sites.

Swaleck · Jan 20, 2012

Working off my laptop here's one converted in RPP and LR2. I'll try LR3 on the imac later. I didn't spend much time on it don't judge the camera by this conversion lol.

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Nell27 · Jan 20, 2012

Sky isn't blown in every shot.

worldcup1982 · Jan 20, 2012

the camera has a tendency to blow highlights...but you have to download these raw samples...
http://www.quesabesde.com/...on-powershot-g1-x-analisis-muestras-video,1_8397
much better...

i wouldnt worry about the blown highlights, since canons histogram is very good...
but DR maybe not very good....

Nell27 said:
Sky isn't blown in every shot.

IchiroCameraGuy · Jan 20, 2012

Nell27 said:
Not sure about opening the raw files but I'm a little surprised with the pictures posted at that site.

None of the shots looked like anything special and the portrait of the girl is down right bad.

On top of that sky is blown out in every shot.

Either the photographer didn't know what they were doing or the camera isn't as good as it appeared to be at other sites.

so far lenstip seems to have the best samples, the sample photos for dpreview and those linked up above are not really bad but about same as 2008-2009 Canon APS sensor cameras

aqwa · Jan 20, 2012

XnView can open G1X raw files

RedFox88 · Jan 20, 2012

RAW files for every camera must be in ACR for an Adobe product to open the RAW files. This happens with every new camera. Adobe must create a new profile for every new camera. This is what Adobe does on their own, not info they are provided by camera manufacturers.

Polyglot92 · Jan 21, 2012

Let's just assume that by the time they ship the camera they'll also ship a version of DPP which supports it. Meanwhile why not ask the websites what they had in mind for viewing what they uploaded?

PhilM oz said:
Len_Gee said:

Yes they will.
What version of ACR do you have?
RAW images open just fine and the images look pretty good IMHO.

Click to expand...

ACR 6.6, Lightroom 3.6 & Lightroom 4 Beta all refuse to open the G1X raw images.

RawTherapee will open them; but the colors are all wrong.
Dcraw will convert them; but again all the colors are wrong.

Very curious as to how you opened them?

Phil.

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