OpenRAW and RAW digital camera image formats

Feb 14, 2008 at 3:59 PM
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OpenRAW want "camera manufacturers to publicly document their RAW image formats — past, present, and future. The goal of OpenRAW is to encourage image preservation and give creative choice of how images are processed to the creators of the images. To this end, we advocate open documentation of information about the how the raw data is stored and the camera settings selected by the photographer."

http://www.cybercom.net/~dcoffin/dcraw

There IS an ANSI C program that attempts to decode any raw image from any digital camera on any computer running any operating system.That program is called dcraw (pronounced "dee-see-raw"), and it's become a standard tool within and without the Open Source world. It's small (about 8000 lines), portable (standard C libraries only), free (both "gratis" and "libre"), and when used skillfully, produces better quality output than the tools provided by the camera vendor.

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the current version is very good. I use the UFraw plugin in Gimp that uses dcraw to decode the raw files. It is greatly improved on earlier versions. I could finally stop using XP to process my photos.

thanks i didn't know there was a dcraw plugin for gimp
(PS i'll now be adding this post to the VOX GIMP group)

OpenRAW and RAW digital camera image formats

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