RAW files and importers

[nicholas hall]

Most of the pictures I take on my canon EOS 350D are taken as a RAW file.

The trouble I am having is that ALL the programs I use to import my picture
can not see the RAW files.
Once the pictures are on my computer the main part of the program can see
and handle the said RAW files?
At the moment I am trying out Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 1.
I know that the said program does not officially support vista but Photoshop
Elements 5 is supposed to support vista and when trying that program the
photo downloader would not see RAW files either?
I am just wondering if anyone is importing RAW files using a program like I
have mentioned and they are having success or not?

Any help or information would be gratefully accepted.

NIK

 

[macropod]

Hi Nicholas,

Canon's Digital Photo Professional and ZoomBrowser EX both read Canon's RAW files. Both would have come with your 350D. Check the
Canon website for updates.

Cheers

 

[Ben Enfield]

There is nothing better than Lightrooom. Don't switch, it is the best
program out there for basic photo management.

Ben

 

[nicholas hall]

If I can sort out the problem with importing pictures then I can see myself
sticking with it (Lightroom), but if I can not sort out the importing of
pictures then I will have little choice but to find a program that can do
what I want with it.

NIK

 

[Guest]

I am having the same problem and posted my exact issues with Vista and RAW
files. You can see my post if you search RAW Vista Download. I will also
come back here and paste my problems in this thread.

Any help would be greatly appreciated


Jim

 

[Guest]

Here is my problem as described in my post;

I just bought an Acer Aspire 9410 laptop with a dual-core processor and 2 GB
memory and Windows Vista installed.

I attach my Canon 30D as usual and PSE5 shows the camera but states "No
Valid Files" under the box.

I then took some quick RAW and a JPG photos and it Downloaded the JPG in
seconds but ignored the RAW file.

I then moved the Files (RAW & JPG) to a desktop folder and PSE5 recognized
all of them and uploaded them into the PSE5 program.


I then tried a DVD with 200+ RAW files from a shoot and PSE5 again uploaded
them from the disk with no problem. I can view the thumbnails and the photos
in the organizer as usual.

I then went to my desktop and uploaded the photos from the camera directly
into PSE5. The desktop is running Windows XP so I am led to believe that this
is a PSE5/Vista compatibility problem.

Now an additional problem is that the .CR2 files that have been uploaded
from the disk and into PSE5 have problems opening.

When I try to open the .CR2 files into the editor, I get a message that
states "Camera Raw requires a minimum display resolution of 1024 pixels wide
and 768 pixels high. Your display is set to a lower resolution. Continue
anyway?" My resolution is set to 1440 X 900. I have also tried all of the
other resolutions offered and still get the same message.

I have updated both Vista and PSE5 with the latest updates and I have
installed the most recent ACR plugin.

As a check, I also tried to upload to Picasa2 and all it did was recognize
the camera but never download. Again this seems to be a Vista compatiblity
problem.

I guess I am hoping that someone is going to tellme of a check box or
something that will fix this.

Thanks for any help on this

 

[Guest]

I have the XTi and Lightroom sees the CR2 (Raw) files ok. I can select Import
and it does import the files into lightroom. I am using the released version
of Lightroom, I'm not sure if that makes a difference. The only problem I
seem to have is Windows Vista cannot see the RAW files in the picture
browser. So if I'm looking for a picture I can only see jpg file and not the
raw images. The Canon site has updates for Zoombrowser EX if that helps you.
They are working on a fix for Digital Prof. and Vista so keep checking. As
far as Lightroom goes though, it's a awsome program and seems to work fine in
Vista so far. I can Import and Export files so far. Are you using the beta
version or the released version?

Bish

 

[Guest]

Thanks for the response Bish,

I am not using Lightroom yet as I was waiting for the complete release and
some of the bugs to be wiorked out. I wouldn't have gone with Vista yet if
it hadn't been installed on the computer I bought.

I think a strange thing is that my Adobe program shows all the RAW files in
the organizer I just can't download or get it to read my screen reolution and
yours can't see the RAW files but downloads and edits fine.

I wonder if I can find a copy of XP and just reformat and use that?

Thanks again.

Jim

 

[nicholas hall]

Bish I am running the final version.

I have tried the Zoombrowser with no luck.

I went to the canon site and downloaded the update. I installed it and ran
it. The trouble is the program says that my model of camera is not
supported??? (I know I downloaded the right version of software for my model
of camera).

So at the moment I am using the old drag and drop method of importing
picture onto my computer.

NIK

 

[Guest]

I got part of my problem solved. I handled the part where the computer wasn't
reading my resolution by changing the .EXE properties section of each
executable file in the PSE5 program.

I am still working on the download from the camera problem.

"dazzlin" from the VistaBabble.com website offered the following for when
you have software problems in Vista;

This was mentioned in other threads, but I thought it was useful enough to
make a thread of its own. If you are having a problem with a piece of
software working in Windows Vista, try the following before pulling your hair
out, or throwing your computer against the wall.

1. Right-click on the program's .exe file and choose Properties
2. Click on the Compatibility tab.
3. Check the box that says "Run this program in compatibility mode for"
Windows XP

(You'll notice it also has a box that can be checked to run the program in
Administrator mode. That may also solve a problem or two).

 

[Guest]

Wow that is strange. The only thing I can think of is to try dloading the
pictures from a card reader. That's what I'm using and it seems to work well.
I have used Zoom browser to dload the raw fils as well as the Vista picture
dloader. I've done 3 big portrait sessions and each had 100+ pictures and it
worked well. This was done without the update to zoombrowser. I can't think
of anything else that I'm doing that is different to help you. Do you have
access to a Xp machine? You could always dload them to that and then copy
them over nia cd or flash drive until a fix come up. I'll try a few things
tomorrow and see if I can come up with any way to help you. Vistas pretty
cool but I somewhat regret the upgrade. I can't get my Epson R1800 to work
and Vista seems to bog down my pc! I Might reformat and go back to xp. I'll
post here if I think of anything that might help...

Bish
http://ebishopphoto.com

 

[Guest]

Bish,

Thanks you for the response. I am still stumped on the download problem. I
am going to try the card reader this weekend.


I appreciate the time. I look forward to any other ideas.

Jim

 

[Guest]

Jim: I messed around with the Zoombrowser update and I couldn't get it to
work either. However the unpatched version seems to work fine on my PC. I am
using a card reder though. I haven't plugged in the camera to the computer
yet to see if that works or not. I think if you get a card reader Vista will
see the files on it. Give it a try. Vista still cannot recognize the RAW
files yet. It says I need a Canon CAB file installed for it to work but Canon
has not released it yet.

Bish