Tiger & Camera RAW for Canon Rebel XT (350D)

Woohoo!!! The OS X 10.4.3 update does indeed add Rebel XT RAW support to Preview and iPhoto 🙂
I'm in the process of importing about 600 .CR2 files into iPhoto as I type this...
...everything seems to be working fine so far.

I can't wait to get home. This has been a long time coming. Thank you Apple

Thank you Apple. I take back some of the bad things I said, but I don't think it would have hurt you too bad to give us a little hint earlier. And you know what, I might consider buying Aperture now that you did the right thing by iPhoto.

10.4.3 + iphoto 5.0.4 and it still fails to import my 350d raw files....

oliver wrote:
10.4.3 + iphoto 5.0.4 and it still fails to import my 350d raw files....

Are you trying to import direectly from the camera? I'm just wondering because I haven't tried that yet.
Last night I successfully imported over 600 RAW files from my Rebel XT into iPhoto. However, they were already (in folders) on my hard drive. I just dragged and dropped the folders (one at a time) onto iPhoto, and it didn't have any issues with any of the images.
You should also be able to open them in Preview (amd see full image resolution, not the embedded JPEG preview) - have you tried this?

If this doesn't work I don't know what to suggest. Do you have a European, Japanese or US version of the Rebel XT/350D? (I have the US market Rebel XT).

Hi Terry - thanks for the advice.

I had to download the latest version of Image Browser from Canon's website, then it did work.

I also rang Apple and was solemnly told that they could give no date for updating iPhoto...I see from the later messages on this thread that the right hand didn't know what the left was up to! Now to try updating.

Aha. I have just run the 10.4.3 update and I still cannot get iPhoto to read in .cr2 files either direct from the camera or those already downloaded onto the computer. I can see the images in the icons in the finder so Mac OSX is capable of understanding the format...but iPhoto cannot it seems. Presumably we now need an update to iPhoto too.

I am puzzled as to why others seem to be able to get iPhoto to work now.

:: I am puzzled as to why others seem to be able to get iPhoto
:: to work now.

What Canon firmware version are you using on your XT/350D? I'm on 1.0.2 but had 1.0.1 when I bought the camera. I physically had to go to the Canon site and download/install over the summer (thinking that might solve the problem, but it did not).

When I upgraded to 10.4.3 last night everything recognized my CR2 files (Preview & iPhoto).

I have the european version of the 350d...bought in france.

directly from the cam or by dropping .cr2 files onto iphoto or preview IT DOES NOT WORK on my 3 macs :PB G4, iMac G5 and PM G5 Bi CPU

I am with William. I had no problems upgrading. Everything worked fine both in preview and iphoto. I did not try downloading any images directly from my camera though. All data was off my powerbook.

I'll check all version numbers tonight.

Paul

Hi guys, first post on this board.

Could it possibly differ between the US-version (Digital Rebel XT) and the European (350D) in some way? I have a 350D bought here in Sweden and iPhoto as well as Preview fails to import/view my .CR2-files both directly from camera and from disk. It sounds really far fetched though since it should be the exact same camera only branded a bit differently. Just a thought though...

I am really frustrated right now since I have been looking forward to RAW-compability in iPhoto for my camera for quite some time now and was very glad to read the posts above. I hope there's a logic explanation to this.

Jonas

Just want to report that iPhoto 5.0.4 on Tiger 10.4.3 recognized RAW from my Canon PowerShot G3 camera. It appeared in iPhoto as Canon Raw, size 2296x1704 pixels, 3.8MB. It wasn't accepted before 10.4.3.

After double clicking it opened in PS 9 in the same size and resolution.
On the first sight, the picture shows more details. After testing auto adjustments none were necessary.

Milan

It looks like the issue with the 350D may indeed be due to iPhoto/OS X 10.4.3 recognising only the USA market version. See this theread for more details:
Ian Spray, "STILL no EOS 350D/Rebel XT RAW Support" #22, 09:49am Nov 1, 2005 CDT

Only other thing could be the firmware revision - I'm running 1.0.2 in my Rebel XT (and having no problems).

Just to add to the thread.

Got my 350D (Asian version) and upgraded to 1.0.3 firmware. Imagebrowser can display it properly but Digital Photo Pro (Canon) version 2.0.3 cannot.

iPhoto 5.0.4 on Mac OS X 10.4.3 still cannot display it either. Finder can see and display the JPEG thumbnail but opening it on either Preview or iPhoto does not work.

Apparently it has to do with the camera name not being recognized by iPhoto. The file RAW.plist is where all the supported camera models are listed. The Canon EOS-350D is missing from that list. Here is a version of that file with the 350D added http://minimal.cx/2005/11/01/make-os-x-1043-understand-canon-eos-350d-raw-files/ Raw.plist

MAKE SURE TO MAKE A BACKUP OF THE ORIGINAL RAW.plist