G1X mkII raw?

A quick question I think I know the answer to - is there any raw support from any of the 3rd party raw processors for the G1X ii yet? I'm supposing not based on what I've seen here and been able to determine for myself.

If not, has anyone found any workaround like using a DNG conversion or something? I sometimes use an exif changing trick to make Lightroom think it's a previous generation (like Fuji XE2 used to process XT1 files before there was support) but with as many changes as there are between the G1X and G1X ii cameras (12mp vs 14, multi aspect ratio, different zoom range, etc...), I don't think that would be a good idea here...

Do any of the smaller processors like Photo Ninja, Irident Developer, etc, handle the raw files if Lightroom and Aperture don't?

Thanks for any information...

-Ray
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Ray Sachs said:

A quick question I think I know the answer to - is there any raw support from any of the 3rd party raw processors for the G1X ii yet? I'm supposing not based on what I've seen here and been able to determine for myself.

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Hi Ray,

Lightroom 5.4 has 'preliminary support', it reads and converts the RAW files, but there is no lensdata yet.

Same should apply to the latest Adobe Camera RAW/DNG update, released together with LR 5.4

In the mean time Canon's Digital Photo Professional works like a charm

...€0.02...

Kindest regards,

Max@Home

Max@Home said:

Ray Sachs said:

A quick question I think I know the answer to - is there any raw support from any of the 3rd party raw processors for the G1X ii yet? I'm supposing not based on what I've seen here and been able to determine for myself.

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Hi Ray,

Lightroom 5.4 has 'preliminary support', it reads and converts the RAW files, but there is no lensdata yet.

Same should apply to the latest Adobe Camera RAW/DNG update, released together with LR 5.4

In the mean time Canon's Digital Photo Professional works like a charm

...€0.02...

Kindest regards,

Max@Home

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Thanks so much - that's VERY helpful information. At the very least it'll be easy to see how manageable noise is at high ISO, how much DR is in the files and how well it handles various types of processing.

When you say there's NO lensdata, you mean the raw files are COMPLETELY uncorrected? Or does it read the correction instructions in the raw files and apply that but it doesn't have a specific profile for the lens?

Thanks much,

-Ray
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We judge photographers by the photographs we see. We judge cameras by the photographs we miss - Haim Zamir

Ray Sachs said:

When you say there's NO lensdata, you mean the raw files are COMPLETELY uncorrected? Or does it read the correction instructions in the raw files and apply that but it doesn't have a specific profile for the lens?

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I may be completely wrong, but I don't think DPP has/supports lens correction data for *fixed* lens cameras like the G1x or other G series cameras, but only for EF lenses from D-SLRs. I use DPP for my G15 and the newest version supports the G1X mkII of course.

You can find .CR2 files from the G1X mkII at Imaging-resource.com: http://www.imaging-resource.com/PRODS/canon-g1x-ii/canon-g1x-iiA7.HTM

John McCormack said:

Ray Sachs said:

When you say there's NO lensdata, you mean the raw files are COMPLETELY uncorrected? Or does it read the correction instructions in the raw files and apply that but it doesn't have a specific profile for the lens?

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I may be completely wrong, but I don't think DPP has/supports lens correction data for *fixed* lens cameras like the G1x or other G series cameras, but only for EF lenses from D-SLRs. I use DPP for my G15 and the newest version supports the G1X mkII of course.

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I think you're right, but I wasn't sure - they have profiles for various zoom lenses in the ILC world, so I thought they might for a fixed lens zoom.

John McCormack said:

You can find .CR2 files from the G1X mkII at Imaging-resource.com: http://www.imaging-resource.com/PRODS/canon-g1x-ii/canon-g1x-iiA7.HTM

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Thanks John, I'd already downloaded a couple of these and played around with them. ISO 3200 and 6400 look quite usable, which I was happy to see. Some noise, for sure, but reasonably tight, not blotchy, easy to work with. Highly preferable to jpeg NR to my eyes. Always hard to tell in those kind of test shots, though - there's always plenty of light so you don't really see how the higher ISO values are gonna behave when you NEED them. The lens looked fine, at least at the slightly long focal length those shots used - I'll have to see some raw files shot at the wide end to know more.

-Ray

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We judge photographers by the photographs we see. We judge cameras by the photographs we miss - Haim Zamir