Camera raw formats officially and unofficially supported:
Canon � EOS-1D � EOS-1Ds *10D � 300D
This seems to be a substantially larger list than Adobe suggest at <http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/cameraraw.html>
Is this because new models are being added ( or is the unofficial list due to haxies?)
If you are permitted to say...
I don't have a precise explanation, but the unofficial list points to the fact that these cameras raw files are recognised by Camera Raw2. Why? I believe it is because the camera formats were not added to the list until after an internal cut-off point when the promotional literature was authorised for publication. Adobe's legal department are very thorough in this respect and I don't think anyone, not even Mr Thomas Knoll ,can simply drop in extra content after a certain date has passed. Maybe there are other legal reasons why they cannot state that certain manufacturers raw formats are readable? I honestly don't know which. At the end of the day, it is OK for myself and other users to discuss what we like and dislike about the program and share information about this, because I don't officially represent Adobe.
Richard was asking about 16-bit. Well I like the fact that you can do more in 16-bit. I also like the fact that you can use the healing brush and patch tool to an empty layer, and do this in 16-bit. But it is at this point that you may start to see a performance hit. But these observations are based on working with the beta version of Photoshop CS and so any judgment I make should be reserved until we see the final release version. On the other hand, I am reminded of the Photoshop 5.0 release and how long it used to take to do a profile conversion. That was because of the slowness of the computer hardware at the time. For the moment, 16-bit editing is probably going to be slow for some and the master file sizes, huge. But if we look ahead to ever increasing storage disk sizes and storage media and ever faster computer processing, I think the time has come where that won't necessarily be such an obstacle. I'll reserve judgment until I get my DP G5 Mac! For now, I always scan and capture in 16-bit to do the primary edits, but after that will soon go down to 8-bit, even in Photoshop CS.
Martin
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