I've had a few ask me this.

Once you have Photoshop CS3 or Elements you'll need Camera Raw. You'll have to d/l.

http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/cameraraw.html

 

I though both programs came loaded with ACR. One thing I've had to do in the past in d/l the update for a newer camera I've purchased.

 

It has to be the newer cameras that the older ACR doesn't have the profiles. Upgrade to 4.5 is needed. I've had three ask me with newer cameras, so that has to be the problem.

 

Not having a standardized RAW format is horrible, horrible, horrible.
It's very annoying to have a piece of software which you are pretty much guaranteed
won't work after you get a new camera. Sure, if you are a huge company, you can
afford to keep making/shelling out updates, but isn't their time better off doing better
things too?

- Frank

 

To have a standardize format won't mean anything either, there always be upgrades to a RAW because of the software used to make them. Not allowing this would stagnate RAW files. With Camera Companies going from 12 to 14 to soon 16 bit files, the RAW file has to change, it can't stay the same. So with the newer RAW files, the third party software would have to be upgraded as well.

 

Thank you!

 

Hmm. What you said makes a lot of sense.
Although # of bits isn't necessarily an issue as long as the RAW file has a header which indicates how many bits per pixel there are.
What I could see being a much bigger headache is Fuji's sensor, which
doesn't even lay out pixels in a horizontal grid format.

I wonder, however, how Adobe's DNG format works. I don't use it, but
as I understand it, any RAW file can be converted losslessly into a DNG
file. And DNG has been around for a bit. Lord knows how Fuji's stuff gets
transformed.

- Frank

 

I would bits as an ie, there's many other to think of. And Fuji, :nightmare:

 

When I download 4.5 and try to upload it, it says "PS cannot open up this file as it does not recognize it's file type" or something like that.