Anyone building a CanonRaw converter for OSX?

[Joe Rivera]

I was wondering if anyone is building, knows someone who is building or has any information about a Mac OSX native Canon Raw converter. The utility Canon has provided it's customers with is nothing short of garbage, both inconvenient to use and impossible to fit into a photo workthrough. I'd love Adobe's new Raw plug-in but I hardly think it is worth the $700 investment for Photoshop 7.0.1 and Adobe Camera Raw.

I am hoping that some wonderful programmer out there is hard at work on a fast, furious Mac OSX native application for converting RAW. I'm sure there is money to be made with it, and I just want to know if I should hold my breath or just accept the awful fate of having to work with the File Viewer Utility.

I would even settle for a conversion of Canon's Mac OS 9 Raw Converter stand-alone, which was at least convenient in that you could drag and drop crws to it from iView or the desktop.

Joe

 

[robekert]

Joe,

One lower priced solution is to go with Photo Shop Elements 2 and the Abobe Camera Raw Plug-in. I got PSE2 for $35.00 after rebates and ACR for $99.00. This is what I did.
Rob

I was wondering if anyone is building, knows someone who is
building or has any information about a Mac OSX native Canon Raw
converter. The utility Canon has provided it's customers with is
nothing short of garbage, both inconvenient to use and impossible
to fit into a photo workthrough. I'd love Adobe's new Raw plug-in
but I hardly think it is worth the $700 investment for Photoshop
7.0.1 and Adobe Camera Raw.

I am hoping that some wonderful programmer out there is hard at
work on a fast, furious Mac OSX native application for converting
RAW. I'm sure there is money to be made with it, and I just want to
know if I should hold my breath or just accept the awful fate of
having to work with the File Viewer Utility.

I would even settle for a conversion of Canon's Mac OS 9 Raw
Converter stand-alone, which was at least convenient in that you
could drag and drop crws to it from iView or the desktop.

Joe

 

[Eric_MI]

Joe -

You might want to check out CRW-X

http://www.frostyplace.com/CRW/

I'd love to hear some feedback on this freeware as I am looking forward to getting a 10D soon and prefer my Powerbook over my other computers.

-eric

I was wondering if anyone is building, knows someone who is
building or has any information about a Mac OSX native Canon Raw
converter. The utility Canon has provided it's customers with is
nothing short of garbage, both inconvenient to use and impossible
to fit into a photo workthrough. I'd love Adobe's new Raw plug-in
but I hardly think it is worth the $700 investment for Photoshop
7.0.1 and Adobe Camera Raw.

I am hoping that some wonderful programmer out there is hard at
work on a fast, furious Mac OSX native application for converting
RAW. I'm sure there is money to be made with it, and I just want to
know if I should hold my breath or just accept the awful fate of
having to work with the File Viewer Utility.

I would even settle for a conversion of Canon's Mac OS 9 Raw
Converter stand-alone, which was at least convenient in that you
could drag and drop crws to it from iView or the desktop.

Joe

 

[josh anon]

Just be careful, as it makes linear images--in other words, you'll be scratching your head wondering why they're dark if you're not prepared.

The Adobe raw converter (based on the same code, from my understanding) works quite nicely IMHO.

Josh

You might want to check out CRW-X

http://www.frostyplace.com/CRW/

I'd love to hear some feedback on this freeware as I am looking
forward to getting a 10D soon and prefer my Powerbook over my other
computers.

-eric

I was wondering if anyone is building, knows someone who is
building or has any information about a Mac OSX native Canon Raw
converter. The utility Canon has provided it's customers with is
nothing short of garbage, both inconvenient to use and impossible
to fit into a photo workthrough. I'd love Adobe's new Raw plug-in
but I hardly think it is worth the $700 investment for Photoshop
7.0.1 and Adobe Camera Raw.

I am hoping that some wonderful programmer out there is hard at
work on a fast, furious Mac OSX native application for converting
RAW. I'm sure there is money to be made with it, and I just want to
know if I should hold my breath or just accept the awful fate of
having to work with the File Viewer Utility.

I would even settle for a conversion of Canon's Mac OS 9 Raw
Converter stand-alone, which was at least convenient in that you
could drag and drop crws to it from iView or the desktop.

Joe

 

[Bryan Chang]

Hi Eric,

I think CRW-X should work with 10D since the RAW file format is the same as D60. I plan to release a new version of CRW-X next month.

Bryan

You might want to check out CRW-X

http://www.frostyplace.com/CRW/

I'd love to hear some feedback on this freeware as I am looking
forward to getting a 10D soon and prefer my Powerbook over my other
computers.

-eric

I was wondering if anyone is building, knows someone who is
building or has any information about a Mac OSX native Canon Raw
converter. The utility Canon has provided it's customers with is
nothing short of garbage, both inconvenient to use and impossible
to fit into a photo workthrough. I'd love Adobe's new Raw plug-in
but I hardly think it is worth the $700 investment for Photoshop
7.0.1 and Adobe Camera Raw.

I am hoping that some wonderful programmer out there is hard at
work on a fast, furious Mac OSX native application for converting
RAW. I'm sure there is money to be made with it, and I just want to
know if I should hold my breath or just accept the awful fate of
having to work with the File Viewer Utility.

I would even settle for a conversion of Canon's Mac OS 9 Raw
Converter stand-alone, which was at least convenient in that you
could drag and drop crws to it from iView or the desktop.

Joe

 

[MGrayson]

Hi Eric,

I think CRW-X should work with 10D since the RAW file format is the
same as D60. I plan to release a new version of CRW-X next month.

When I try CRW-X with 10D RAW files, I get empty output.

--Matt

 

[James Robertson78401]

I was wondering if anyone is building, knows someone who is
building or has any information about a Mac OSX native Canon Raw
converter. The utility Canon has provided it's customers with is
nothing short of garbage, both inconvenient to use and impossible
to fit into a photo workthrough. I'd love Adobe's new Raw plug-in
but I hardly think it is worth the $700 investment for Photoshop
7.0.1 and Adobe Camera Raw.

The next version of GraphicConverter (4.6) will work with the .CRW files from the 10D, but it won't tie the EXIF data from the .THM files to the exported JPEGs.

--
Jim Robertson

 

[MGrayson]

ooops. That's :-(

Hi Eric,

I think CRW-X should work with 10D since the RAW file format is the
same as D60. I plan to release a new version of CRW-X next month.

When I try CRW-X with 10D RAW files, I get empty output.

--Matt

 

[SAReichel]

how does crw-x fit into my workflow? i shot raw before i switched to mac and converted in breezebrowser. now i shoot large jpeg. i have an imac and use iphoto to import from canon d60, then edit in pse 2.
--
Steve
http://www.pbase.com/sareichel

 

[kuboåpics™]

Joe please email [email protected].

Tell them that you want version of C.O. LE for Macs.

Tell them there are many like me and you that won't want to

have to pay $500 when CO is updated to cover the 10D for macs.

 

[DGSmithMD]

Joe please email [email protected].

Tell them that you want version of C.O. LE for Macs.

Tell them there are many like me and you that won't want to

have to pay $500 when CO is updated to cover the 10D for macs.

--
Dave

http://www.pbase.com/dgsmithmd
10D, S30
Sigma 15-30
Canon 24-85
Sigma 28, 1.8
Canon 50, 1.8
Canon 85 1.8
Canon 70-200 2.8L
Sigma 50-500

 

[MGrayson]

Joe please email [email protected].

Tell them that you want version of C.O. LE for Macs.

Tell them there are many like me and you that won't want to

have to pay $500 when CO is updated to cover the 10D for macs.

They responded with a polite raspberry. The FAQ states that there are no plans blah blah blah. I asked them to please reconsider.

 

[MGrayson]

Phase One was clear that they have no plans for an OSX Canon RAW converter, and I'm not going back to Wintel, so I broke down and bought the Adobe. It works very very well, and I have no more complaints about blown highlights, softness, or shadow noise from the 10D.

--Matt

 

[DGSmithMD]

Phase One was clear that they have no plans for an OSX Canon RAW
converter, and I'm not going back to Wintel, so I broke down and
bought the Adobe. It works very very well, and I have no more
complaints about blown highlights, softness, or shadow noise from
the 10D.

--Matt

How did u get it to work with the 10D?
Dave

http://www.pbase.com/dgsmithmd
10D, S30
Sigma 15-30
Canon 24-85
Sigma 28, 1.8
Canon 50, 1.8
Canon 85 1.8
Canon 70-200 2.8L
Sigma 50-500