MRWFormat: New version with A2 is support

[Dalibor Jelinek]

Hello,
I have just released the new version of MRWFormat plug-in with
A2 support. I will be sending the version 1.50 to all registered
users shortly by email. Those who who have bought this software and
have not registered yet, please do it now.

The demo version of 1.50 can be found at:
http://www.dalibor.cz/minolta/plugin.htm

I have interrupted my work on version 2 to give you this version
with A2 support so I can go on with my development not having
to answer where the A2 support it. ;-)
The preview is this released version is still not color managed.

Mac users:
It seems that the development of Mac version will start on the
next week. So please have just a bit more patience. I hope that
my Mac programmer will be able to do it quickly.

Regards,
Dalibor

 

[David Race]

Hello,
I have just released the new version of MRWFormat plug-in with
A2 support. I will be sending the version 1.50 to all registered
users shortly by email. Those who who have bought this software and
have not registered yet, please do it now.

The demo version of 1.50 can be found at:
http://www.dalibor.cz/minolta/plugin.htm

I have interrupted my work on version 2 to give you this version
with A2 support so I can go on with my development not having
to answer where the A2 support it. ;-)
The preview is this released version is still not color managed.

Mac users:
It seems that the development of Mac version will start on the
next week. So please have just a bit more patience. I hope that
my Mac programmer will be able to do it quickly.

Regards,
Dalibor

 

[Barrie Davis]

Hello,
I have just released the new version of MRWFormat plug-in with
A2 support. I will be sending the version 1.50 to all registered
users shortly by email. Those who who have bought this software and
have not registered yet, please do it now.

The demo version of 1.50 can be found at:
http://www.dalibor.cz/minolta/plugin.htm

I have interrupted my work on version 2 to give you this version
with A2 support so I can go on with my development not having
to answer where the A2 support it. ;-)
The preview is this released version is still not color managed.

Mac users:
It seems that the development of Mac version will start on the
next week. So please have just a bit more patience. I hope that
my Mac programmer will be able to do it quickly.

Regards,
Dalibor

 

[Box Brownie]

Hello,
I have just released the new version of MRWFormat plug-in with
A2 support. I will be sending the version 1.50 to all registered
users shortly by email. Those who who have bought this software and
have not registered yet, please do it now.

The demo version of 1.50 can be found at:
http://www.dalibor.cz/minolta/plugin.htm

I have interrupted my work on version 2 to give you this version
with A2 support so I can go on with my development not having
to answer where the A2 support it. ;-)
The preview is this released version is still not color managed.

Mac users:
It seems that the development of Mac version will start on the
next week. So please have just a bit more patience. I hope that
my Mac programmer will be able to do it quickly.

Regards,
Dalibor

Just a quick question.

How does this converter compare to the Photoshop CS ACR2.1, which only unofficially supports the A2?

: )

 

[KEITH-C]

Just a quick question.

How does this converter compare to the Photoshop CS ACR2.1, which
only unofficially supports the A2?

The obvious answer is to do as suggested & try the demo!

Good work Dalibor this will help anyone who is contemplating or who has just bought an A2.

--
Keith-C

 

[PDM]

Thanks Dalibor, I will be (im)patiently waiting for it in my email.

Paul

Hello,
I have just released the new version of MRWFormat plug-in with
A2 support. I will be sending the version 1.50 to all registered
users shortly by email. Those who who have bought this software and
have not registered yet, please do it now.

The demo version of 1.50 can be found at:
http://www.dalibor.cz/minolta/plugin.htm

I have interrupted my work on version 2 to give you this version
with A2 support so I can go on with my development not having
to answer where the A2 support it. ;-)
The preview is this released version is still not color managed.

Mac users:
It seems that the development of Mac version will start on the
next week. So please have just a bit more patience. I hope that
my Mac programmer will be able to do it quickly.

Regards,
Dalibor

 

[David Race]

Hello,
I have just released the new version of MRWFormat plug-in with
A2 support. I will be sending the version 1.50 to all registered
users shortly by email. Those who who have bought this software and
have not registered yet, please do it now.

The demo version of 1.50 can be found at:
http://www.dalibor.cz/minolta/plugin.htm

I have interrupted my work on version 2 to give you this version
with A2 support so I can go on with my development not having
to answer where the A2 support it. ;-)
The preview is this released version is still not color managed.

Mac users:
It seems that the development of Mac version will start on the
next week. So please have just a bit more patience. I hope that
my Mac programmer will be able to do it quickly.

Regards,
Dalibor

Just purchased the full copy Dalibor... looks like it's working very nicely indeed.

Great job.

daveR

 

[Don Erway]

So, the minolta bayer interpolation scheme seems to produce diagonal banding, in the dark noisy areas.

Does this improve that?

I do not have a minolta yet, to try it with. But very interested in the A2 for fast focus and reasonable image quality.

Thanks!
Don

--
Don Erway
http://www.pbase.com/derway/kona_underwater_g2

 

[gary ng]

I like the idea of multiple interpolation algorithm. However, since I could be using different models(Canon/Nikon/Minolta), it would be great if you have a seperate tools that can take a non-interpolated file(say the decoded bayer stored in TIFF) and start from there. As you mentioned in the manual, there is no one algorithm that fits all, but depends on image. This I believe will be a very popular package and you can extend the client base.

Hello,
I have just released the new version of MRWFormat plug-in with
A2 support. I will be sending the version 1.50 to all registered
users shortly by email. Those who who have bought this software and
have not registered yet, please do it now.

The demo version of 1.50 can be found at:
http://www.dalibor.cz/minolta/plugin.htm

I have interrupted my work on version 2 to give you this version
with A2 support so I can go on with my development not having
to answer where the A2 support it. ;-)
The preview is this released version is still not color managed.

Mac users:
It seems that the development of Mac version will start on the
next week. So please have just a bit more patience. I hope that
my Mac programmer will be able to do it quickly.

Regards,
Dalibor

 

[Dalibor Jelinek]

Just a quick question.

How does this converter compare to the Photoshop CS ACR2.1, which
only unofficially supports the A2?

Well, from my point of view:
+ it doesn't destroy EXIF tags, all the tags are passed to Photoshop
+ it generates thumbnails faster than ACR
+ you can choose from many interpolation algorithms
+ it shows where the camera was focused
+ you can use it with PS 6, 7, CS
+ it can show you the camera settings used when taking a photo
+ it is optimized for Minolta
+ my interpolations are not too creative (it doesn't change the image
to be nice, as ACR does)
+ I am adding new features faster
+ you can e-mail me and receive a reply ;-)

• it doesn't have color managed preview (future version 2 will have it)
• the user interface is not as nice

But better try for yourself and see.

Regards,
Dalibor

 

[Dalibor Jelinek]

So, the minolta bayer interpolation scheme seems to produce
diagonal banding, in the dark noisy areas.

Does this improve that?

I do not have a minolta yet, to try it with. But very interested
in the A2 for fast focus and reasonable image quality.

Thanks!
Don

I suppose that some of the interpolations will not have this problem.
This is the beauty of the multiple interpolations algorithms built-in.

Dalibor

 

[Dalibor Jelinek]

I like the idea of multiple interpolation algorithm. However, since
I could be using different models(Canon/Nikon/Minolta), it would be
great if you have a seperate tools that can take a non-interpolated
file(say the decoded bayer stored in TIFF) and start from there. As
you mentioned in the manual, there is no one algorithm that fits
all, but depends on image. This I believe will be a very popular
package and you can extend the client base.

Interesting idea. But how many tools which can extract a raw
file into "standard raw file" you know? I think there are none.

But I plan to extend my plug-in for another cameras in the future.

Dalibor

 

[Dalibor Jelinek]

Hello,
some of the email with the new version have returned.
So please if you are one of the registered users and you
have not recevied the version 1.50 than email me to sort it out.

Namely:
Bernard Oliver
Richard Waters

Regards,
Dalibor

 

[gary ng]

EXIF aside, dcraw can read almost all RAW and output the decoded bayer patterns. At least I have tried some minor modifications to it to do that. Haven't play around with it lately though. The only issue I see with dcraw is it only has one interpolation implementation. In fact, I read that even photoshop use its decoding routine for RAWs and add their own interpolation etc. on the decoded bayer pattern.

Interesting idea. But how many tools which can extract a raw
file into "standard raw file" you know? I think there are none.

But I plan to extend my plug-in for another cameras in the future.

Dalibor

 

[Dalibor Jelinek]

Then maybe I missunderstood you.
I thought you are asking that my plug-in will be able
to read and process something which I would call "RAW RAW file"
it means just series of bytes with no additional information.

I do not want to use dcraw. I am proud that all my work is my own
and I do not want to be named "another dcraw exploiter"

But this is an interesting idea anyway. I could modify my plug-in
slighlty to accept this "RAW RAW file" and someone else
could modify the dcraw to convert the different camera RAW formats
into this RAW RAW files.

Dalibor

Interesting idea. But how many tools which can extract a raw
file into "standard raw file" you know? I think there are none.

But I plan to extend my plug-in for another cameras in the future.

Dalibor

 

[gary ng]

I didn't mean to suggest you to use dcraw but may be able to read TIFF file that is nothing but bayer so each pixel instead of being a tri-color one, it is only a one color one with the other two component being zero. In other words, as if the decoding step has been done(or the NONE output format in MRWFormat). I believe this is equal to your RAW RAW concept but I just thought using TIFF is easier as it is a well understand format. In fact, even the EXIF information can be stuffed into this TIFF too in the standard way rather than the vendor specific.

So for those who want to try it out, they can always decide if they want to use dcraw to do the decoding then feed it to your program. In fact, I may try to do that and release it back to dcraw's author to include it into the standard code. In other words, just add the 'NONE' interpolation to dcraw like your code.

I do not want to use dcraw. I am proud that all my work is my own
and I do not want to be named "another dcraw exploiter"

But this is an interesting idea anyway. I could modify my plug-in
slighlty to accept this "RAW RAW file" and someone else
could modify the dcraw to convert the different camera RAW formats
into this RAW RAW files.

Dalibor

Interesting idea. But how many tools which can extract a raw
file into "standard raw file" you know? I think there are none.

But I plan to extend my plug-in for another cameras in the future.

Dalibor

 

[Erik van dordrecht]

Hello,
I have just released the new version of MRWFormat plug-in with
A2 support. I will be sending the version 1.50 to all registered
users shortly by email. Those who who have bought this software and
have not registered yet, please do it now.

Regards,
Dalibor

-Hello Dalibor,

I have read much about your plugin for MRW-files. Please, could you make your plugin available for Paintshop Pro version 8.1? You can count on my eternal gratitude! (and from a few other PSP users, I imagine)

Regards,

Erik van Dordrecht
[email protected]