I agree. Like others said, it's a matter of who their market is, mostly--makes no sense for a camera maker to have to support advanced features like that on a $150 camera.
The best way for them to do it would be to open their platforms and let the open source community do it. Which brings to mind CHDK. Done without support from Canon, but it doesn't seem like Canon minds. You can very easily replace the firmware in most PowerShots, and shoot raw, among many other things. I have a couple of Powershots. It's nice to shoot DNGs on a $75 camera that takes two AAs. http://chdk.wikia.com/wiki/CHDK j On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 12:01 PM, Tom C <[email protected]> wrote: > I was just thinking that it would seem an easy thing to provide the > option to save to RAW format on any digital camera. I won't consider a > camera that doesn't have that ability. So is that functionality being > withheld to differentiate a higher end camera from a lower end model > and therefore command a higher price? > > Obviously casual users don't need it, or want to understand it, but > surely the RAW data (aside from any small degree of massaging) is > there for the saving at some point in time. > > Tom C. > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- Juan Buhler - http://www.jbuhler.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
