On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 12:11 PM, Sharad Birmiwal <[email protected]>wrote:
> > Hi all, > > More random stuff. > > I recently bought a Canon EOS 450D DSLR and took some pictures in raw > (.cr2) format. Since I didn't have the CD lying around, I tried > downloading the software from Canon's website but it was a major pain > in the a$$ and finally I gave up trying to run it (initially I was > trying to run it on wine but I even tried M$ OS but it didn't even > work there!). You can't simply install the bloody thing! It has some > very random circular dependencies(?) or whatever, I simply didn't want > to bother reading with all the details. BTW, their software is called > digital photo professional. > > Now, when I double clicked on the .cr2 files in Ubuntu 8.04, it opened > it by default in F-Spot. Amazing piece of software which showed the > picture completely but didn't have a feature to export it to jpeg! I > kept banging my head at it, tried many different softwares like dcraw, > and UFRaw but none seem to really help. UFRaw gave me tons of options > (also available comes as gimp-ufraw which allows importing images in > gimp) which I really don't understand right now. dcraw, is the command > line tool which apparently all such softwares use but it always gave > me a picture with a blue tint. > > Anyways, finally I went to #f-spot on irc.gnome.org where I was helped > by this awesome dude, "hub" (respect). Although he didn't help me > directly, but with his help, I finally figured out that there is a > patch fix for this problem in the wild for a very long time. By > installing the latest version of dcraw, it worked like a charm! (You > can write a script to do batch conversions!!) > > So, at the end of all this, I want to bring "dcraw" and "ppmtojpeg" > (available in netpbm) as two tools which are really awesome (but > obviously has very specific use). dcraw can read many different "raw > formats" used by different camera vendors. Official website: > http://www.cybercom.net/~dcoffin/dcraw/<http://www.cybercom.net/%7Edcoffin/dcraw/> > > Hope this will help someone, someday! > Thanks a lot, I have copy-pasted this piece of info in wiki,, http://lug-iitd.org/Articles/Canon_EOS_450D_DSLR_Hacks ,,, Please edit the page,, (if needed) > > BTW, I even tried using Irfanview but couldn't get it to start on wine > and it crashed when I tried to load a .cr2 file on M$ OS. > > > Sharad > > > > -- ┌─────────────────────────┐ │ Narendra Sisodiya │ R&D Engineer │ http://narendra.techfandu.org └─────────────────────────┘ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ l...@iitd mailing list -- group http://groups.google.com/group/iitdlug -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
