recently I purchased a second hand 3 year old Canon EOS 60D digital SLR.
The camera came with all the software (in fact came with all the
original items and packaging) but the RAW file converter plugin for
Photoshop only runs on the old (classic/non OSX) version of Photoshop
LE supplied where as I run Photoshop 7. I am unwilling to re install
classic support just for this.
I've found that with the canon supplied image browser (and likewise
with a couple of freeware/shareware converters I've found) when you
convert the image to TIFF/BMP actually induces artifacts
specifically "jaggies" or stepped pixels on any lines that are not
perfectly vertical or horizontal - this is separate from the known
issue of the pre DiGIC Canon camera's producing similar artifacts on
lines near 45 degree lines as the artifacting is not visible in the
viewed raw file but very obvious in the converted TIFF/BMP images.
While this sort of thing is acceptable for JPEG images it's highly
disappointing, to say the least, to see them in uncompressed TIFF and
BMP files
I've downloaded and installed the updates to the Canon image browser
program but this hasn't solved the problem.
Does anybody have a latter Canon EOS digital camera (say 10/20D or
300/350D) and if so does it came with OSX Photoshop RAW plugin
support?
If so do you know if this supports the RAW files from a 60D I belive
the 60D's RAW format is the same as the 300D in that it is a 6.2 MP
Canon RAW file with an embedded medium resolution JPEG for preview
purposes.
As much as I'd like to upgrade to the latest version of Photoshop CS
which has built in RAW extraction for all the Canon digital cameras
its cost is a bit much right now for me (maybe I'll use my tax refund
if enough)
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