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A1 RAW failure, or what?

Started Apr 18, 2004 | Discussions
Don Dement Contributing Member • Posts: 590
A1 RAW failure, or what?

My A1 won't produce RAW image files, suddenly. I'm using RawDeal and ThumbsPlus 6 Pro, both of which recently opened .MRW Raw files. Now I get almost totally white screen with random color dots in RawDeal and a regular color pattern like tweed cloth in T+. The .THM files are opened in RawDeal and show that the camera functioned well in other respects, and all other recording functions such as JPG and TIF work perfectlyl. Changing cards made no difference.

Anyone ever have failures of only RAW file creation? Have I set something inadvertently to kill this? I don't shoot in RAW often so wasn't aware this whatever it is had happened. What's going on ???

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Klaudio Senior Member • Posts: 2,525
Re: A1 RAW failure, or what?

Since the thumbnail is created by the camera from the raw data, I suspect the probelm is not in the "creation" of the raw file but on the converter side. Try installing the original Dimage viewer and see what you get.

Claudio

Don Dement wrote:

My A1 won't produce RAW image files, suddenly. I'm using RawDeal
and ThumbsPlus 6 Pro, both of which recently opened .MRW Raw
files. Now I get almost totally white screen with random color dots
in RawDeal and a regular color pattern like tweed cloth in T+. The
.THM files are opened in RawDeal and show that the camera
functioned well in other respects, and all other recording
functions such as JPG and TIF work perfectlyl. Changing cards made
no difference.

Anyone ever have failures of only RAW file creation? Have I set
something inadvertently to kill this? I don't shoot in RAW often
so wasn't aware this whatever it is had happened. What's going on
???

OP Don Dement Contributing Member • Posts: 590
Re: A1 RAW failure, or what?

Thanks - you're right. DIVU hadn't occurred to me, and it works fine.

Now I wonder why T+ Pro opened D7i MRWs but won't handle A1 MRWs, and the same with RawDeal. I had better get onto their sites and look for upgrages. Things change so fast I think I'm up to date, and I'm not. Thanks again.

Don

Klaudio wrote:
Since the thumbnail is created by the camera from the raw data, I
suspect the probelm is not in the "creation" of the raw file but on
the converter side. Try installing the original Dimage viewer and
see what you get.

Claudio

Don Dement wrote:

My A1 won't produce RAW image files, suddenly. I'm using RawDeal
and ThumbsPlus 6 Pro, both of which recently opened .MRW Raw
files. Now I get almost totally white screen with random color dots
in RawDeal and a regular color pattern like tweed cloth in T+. The
.THM files are opened in RawDeal and show that the camera
functioned well in other respects, and all other recording
functions such as JPG and TIF work perfectlyl. Changing cards made
no difference.

Anyone ever have failures of only RAW file creation? Have I set
something inadvertently to kill this? I don't shoot in RAW often
so wasn't aware this whatever it is had happened. What's going on
???

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Aaron Bredon Regular Member • Posts: 436
Re: A1 RAW failure, or what?

Don Dement wrote:

Thanks - you're right. DIVU hadn't occurred to me, and it works fine.

Now I wonder why T+ Pro opened D7i MRWs but won't handle A1 MRWs,
and the same with RawDeal. I had better get onto their sites and
look for upgrages. Things change so fast I think I'm up to date,
and I'm not. Thanks again.

Minolta changed the format of the A1's MRW file. The A1 stores RAW files in packed format (12 bits/pixel rather than 16 on the 7/7i/7Hi)

José Martins Forum Member • Posts: 80
Re: A1 RAW failure, or what?

Minolta A1 Raw files are different from the previous Minolta Cameras.

You need to update your software.

OP Don Dement Contributing Member • Posts: 590
Re: A1 RAW failure, or what?

Thanks all for this info. I will look into updating.

José Martins wrote:

Minolta A1 Raw files are different from the previous Minolta Cameras.

You need to update your software.

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Photog74 Regular Member • Posts: 447
Re: A1 RAW failure, or what?

I used RAW Deal quite a bit when I was shooting with the MinoltaDiMAGE A1, but I can’t seem to find the software now - do you know if it’s still available to download (and if so, point me in the right direction)?

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