D700 support and more: Digital Camera Raw Compat. Update 2.2

Clem: Does my post here:

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1715454

sound like the same trouble Scintilone is describing? I haven't received any ideas yet. I'd appreciate it if you'd have a look.

same problem here.
Sony Alpha 700 using cRAW...
installed the previous version, 2.1, and everything works fine again.

Now that was not so nice, Apple!

Thanks 4 the workaround.

That was super helpful. I was getting kinda panicky this morning looking at all my images through a pink glow..

Hey Clem,

You said:

"Pistol -
Sounds like the Sony A700 images you have are not regular uncompressed ARW raw files but cRAW compressed ARW files? The shots of my camera look like what you are seeing but only the arw files shot with the cRAW setting in the camera. If you don't otherwise need what is in DCRCU 2.2 then go back to the previews raw support on your system -

Delete the file: System/Library/CoreServices/RawCamera.bundle then (re)install the previous version.

Get the previous version here:
http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/digitalcamerarawcompatibilityupdate21.htm l"

I say: THANK YOU!!!!!!!!! And why the **** has Apple not figured this out yet and put it in bold somewhere?

*recovers from near heart attack*

CHEERS!

The same here, and also a near heart attack, I just downloaded about 50 pictures which I was going to need tomorrow for an important job

Thank you very much, you just saved my day 🙂

And yes, this is not very nice from Apple, but it teaches me once more to inform oneselfes before doing certain updates...

I think it's a bug in the latest upgrade I use A2 every day

And last evening my Quad was reporting Unsupported file format and the dark red screen for files I could open last week, on checking its upgraded recently.
My Mac book on which I do the conversions from Hasseblad compressed .3FR raw to H.fff (using Phocus) has not upgraded and can show .fff format files ok

so will have to revert back ??

Phil

I have upgraded at digital raw 2.2 and i see nef fro d700 file, but same old file of Nikon D2X result "unsupported", meanwhile before the upgrade is correctly viewed.
If i reinstall digitaraw 2.1 the file of D2X are visibles......bua obviously i can't see nefs from D700....

Strange situation........

IMAC 24 OSX 10.5.5....

I have the same issue (strong magenta or green cast) when opening NEF files from my D200! NEFs from the D300 and D700 open fine. If I remember correctly, only the D200 files had the (not lossless) compression, so it may be the same bug in Aperture? I don't want to downgrade, since I'd loose D700 support again.

Clem
am at my wits end! i am trying to install the old update to fix the a700 issues in aperature but my 'installer' says I already have a newer version installed and will not let me downgrade.

lalaqua23@yahoo.com

Hi,

Projects of images shot with my D200 display fine, and the image resulting from New from Master is what would be expected. Images from my D300 are also fine, as are a few test images shot with a D700.

I assume Raw Fine Tuning is reported as 2.0 with all NEF images?

What model Mac and graphics card are you using, btw?

Ernie

Message was edited by: Ernie Stamper

Thanks for the tip, Clem. It didn't work perfectly for me, though, because there were some PEF-raw issues with the previous raw support. Therefore I returned to 2.2 and then installed the 10.5.5 combo update. Everything perfect now. So maybe that's another solution to the problems.

Well I wish I would have found this thread a little earlier. I had an issue with a faulty battery dying at around 1.5 hours of charge left, and had it die while working in aperture, so I quickly blamed the power failure/Aperture corrupting raw files and causing them to mess up the white balance within the raw file.

So I proceeded to repair my A2 library (twice), reinstalled A2 (twice), archived and installed system (twice). I only noticed that the problem was with the Raw update because I was checking raw files after every step of each new install.

Now, I don't think sending Apple RAW files will help, since the files are fine on other (older) Macs, and they are fine in Nikon Capture. From what I can see in Aperture, as I clicked on a file and watched the white balance just go haywire, creating these magenta and cyan looking images. For some reason, the white balance for when the camera captured the image is not being read correctly.

But thanks to all of you that led me to reinstall the RAW 2.1 and what files to delete. Now everything is back to normal...and I have a clean system to boot!

Since you can set up the D200 to either compress or not compress NEFs, can you check which setting do you have ? I'm pretty sure mine was set to compressed when took the pictures. I no longer have the D200, so I cannot try different settings. The raw fine tuning in A2 is set to 2.0. If I change that to 1.1 or 1.0, then the magenta/green cast disappears, along with the picture itself 😟
What I have left then is just some white lines on one side, the rest of the image is black. Again, only with the D200 images.

I use a MacBook pro with Nvidia GeForce 8600M GT 512 MB Graphics card.

Thanks
Tom

Tom,

I found the setting in the D200 was for compression to be Off -- I am sure I never had ever changed that setting.

However, I changed the setting to put RAW compression On, shot some tests and encountered no issue, I could freely change RAW fine tuning to 1.1 or 1.0, as well as 2.0 without material change or impact.

Ernie

Ernie,
thanks for testing it! I wonder if it depends on any other settings then (beside NEF compression). Anyway I hope that this is the same bug that affects the A700, and that any fix from Apple will fix my D200 issue as well. I found that if I manually override WB and Tint, I can make my D200 NEFs look normal, so in this respect the issue looks similar like the bug that affects the A700 files.
Tom