Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/04/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Nathan Wajsman wrote: > Henning, > > What does it mean that Canon does not support the D30 anymore? You mean > that the bundled software that came with my 20D would not read a D30 > file? If that's the case, no problem, since I haven't even installed the > Canon software... As long as PS CS can open it, I don't care. > > But I do agree that it would be far better if everyone used an open > format. In the meantime, I guess the safest thing to do is to save > things as TIFFs. > > Nathan > > Henning Wulff wrote: > >> >> Open formats are essential if we are to have any hope of accessing our >> images a number of years down the road. We're not talking just about >> 100 years, but as soon as 5 years. Canon is not supporting the D30 >> file format anymore, and that camera just came on the market 5 years >> ago. I'm sure that the older Canon software will still work within the >> next 5 years, but what with new processors, system software etc the >> prospects don't look good after that. >> > I'm glad even my great-grand children will be able to open my albums with slides:-) Michiel