Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/04/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Canon put a reply on the OpenRAW website. Apparently they did not drop support for the D30. It is still supported by the applications that used to support it. It is not, and never was, supported by their professional digital software, which may have been developed after that camera, but it may be added to that program in the future. Mike D 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. >> >