Hi Herb, John On Mon, 1 Mar 2004 19:29:03 -0500, Herb Chong wrote:
>they aren't using the code unmodified. for one thing, they have access to >the Pentax proprietary information by working with Pentax. those fields that >you couldn't decode would have been disclosed to Adobe. I am pretty sure they don't. I have read a reply by Thomas Knoll (one of the Phostoshop developers) on the dpreview site on this subject where he litterally says that. They use DCRAW code for 'reference purposes' but also have the full specs from Pentax and (re)use a lot of their existing code for converting RAW images ... Regards, JvW > >Herb.... >----- Original Message ----- >From: "John Francis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Monday, March 01, 2004 1:17 PM >Subject: Re: Color-cast viewing *ISTD RAW images in BreezeBrowser > > >> I'm not sure even Adobe is doing that. I believe the photoshop code is >> using Dave Coffin's dcraw program, and the last time I looked that didn't >> read the settings from the RAW file, but just applied auto-white-balance. >> (It also uses a Bayer interpolation algorithm I'm not all that fond of) ------------------------------------------------------------------ Jan van Wijk; http://www.dfsee.com/gallery
