I was there in New York when the camera raw announcement was made. There is no other official Adobe announcement as yet. I posted this link before, so in case anyone missed it, here it is again from Rob Galbraith's site.Is it possible to find out or is it already known whether the plug-in canS2 files have had more delay than the rest, to be included in third party
deal with S2 RAW files? DPreview seems to think that the honeycombed sensors
may cause a problem for software writers.
software, maybe that is the reason, but I don't know for sure. I think you
will do better by contacting your Adobe fellows, or even Mr.Knoll himself
and find out about this much faster than us, common mortals. I can't
remember what did they say about the S2 or if they said anything specific at
all. Sorry.
I was too thrilled at the news about the handling of Canon files, since it
is a major pain to deal with the Canon's Raw Image Converter(RIC) as the
only choice in Mac systems ( There is a beta code for OSX with good reviews,
but it is equally slow, with OSX being of no help at all to improve speed,
if compared to the ability of Windows systems to work with Raw data in
seconds, as compared to minutes in the Macs). I am a Mac user so you should
know how this hurts.
There is no point of comparison. A fast Mac may take up some 50-60 seconds
to process one Raw file in the RIC and produce a 16Bit tiff file, while
the PC's will process no less than 10 files in the same time. If you have
900 files to process, then the math is simple.
I assume this has to do with Raw format being native to PeeCees, camera's
systems to be some sort of DOS,etc,etc.
Some photographers have even bought PC boxes just to deal with their Raw
data . Comments and performance on the Beta Raw PlugIn for Photoshop in
Macs were very promising and we are all looking forward to this Launch.
<http://www.robgalbraith.com/diginews/2002-11/2002_11_01_adobe.html>
The demo shown, converted an EOS raw file and the time it took to do this was a matter of seconds, not minutes. And I would suggest that it is reasonable to anticipate that the Camera Raw when it is released, will support more than just Canon camera files. There are other solutions out there already that enable you to replace the camera software with something more speedy and useful. Bibble has been mentioned, but there is also iView. Camera Raw however, will of course allow you to operate completely within Photoshop 7.
Martin Evening Photography <www.martinevening.com>
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Author of Adobe Photoshop 7.0 for Photographers
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