Canon 350D (Rebal XT) using Canon RAW software

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Canon 350D (Rebal XT) using Canon RAW software

Hi,

Has anyone with a MacBook used the Canon software for their 350D (Rebal XT) when using RAW images. i.e. :

"Digital Photo Professional"
"Digital Photo Professional Batch"
"EOS Utility"
"EOS Capture"
"ImageBrowser"
"PhotoStitch"

I mailed Canon and they said:

"As of yet, we don't have any information regarding the compatibility of products running on an Intel Mac with OS X v10.4.6"

Tried using iPhoto but it has done a few odd things.

R

G4 1.25 DP / iBook 12 G4 1.2 / PowerBook 17 1.67GHz / iMac 20 G5 1.8, Mac OS X (10.4.6)

Posted on Jun 4, 2006 5:21 AM

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Answer 1

Jun 4, 2006 6:40 AM in response to Ray Allen

If you want a RAW image workflow then the recommend software product is Aperture. Unfortunately, the problem here is that Aperture is not supported on the MacBook. So, You might want to have a look at Adobe Lightroom which has far lighter requirements…

http://www.adobe.com/cgi-bin/redirect?http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/lightro om

Please be aware that Lightroom is still in Beta although is Universal.

By the way, what weird things was iPhoto doing?

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Answer 2

Ray Allen Author

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Jun 4, 2006 6:51 AM in response to infinite vortex

Hi,

Been playing with Aperture, not tried Lightroom yet. But found it just runs too slow on the Mac I tried it on (PowerBook 17" 1.67) at least the Canon software I can batch convert RAW into 16bit TIFF for PhotoShop which is what I'm doing now (want to get the MacBook)

What IPoto is doing is this:

I tend to drag an image from iPhoto straight into PhotoShop in the dock and it will do this fine if the image is "landscape" it send to PhotoShop the RAW version.

If the image is portrait (my canon has an auto rotate feature in the camera which iPhoto can read and rotates on intial import) then it send it to PhotoShop as a jpeg, so no RAW features.

The work around is to export any portait images to desktop then drag into photoshop.

Not a big deal but when you have shot 200-300 images its a pain

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Answer 3

Jun 4, 2006 8:06 AM in response to Ray Allen

What versions of the Canon software are you using. Canon EVU and DPP ran very poorly for me on a 2GHz MacBook with 2GB of RAM. There is an update for DPP, version 2.1.1.3, on Canon's support site that made it alot faster to load the thumbnails, but it still took about 8-10 seconds to process a RAW file. Check out Adobe Lightroom beta 2 - beta 3 is coming soon. It is free for now and it's a universal app. Bibble is a universal app as well.

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Ray Allen Author

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Jun 4, 2006 12:42 PM in response to bluebomberx

Hi

Yes running 2.1.1.3 like you I found the older version to be slow and bad.

But it is slow.

So are you indeed running this on the MacBook? Canon could not tell me if it will work.

Going to download the beta 3 when it's ready maybe the end of this month I assume.

R

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