Roger Clark
02-27-2010, 12:36 AM
Canon apparently announced today updates to software like digital photo professional (DPP) to add new cameras, but also drops support for MANY cameras:
http://www.imaging-resource.com/NEWS/1267213625.html
"Digital Photo Professional v3.8.1 for Mac and EOS Utility 2.8.1 on both Mac and PC platforms add support for the EOS Rebel T2i body, but also simultaneously ceases support for all digital SLRs prior to the EOS 30D. Newly unsupported cameras include the EOS D30, EOS D60, EOS 10D, EOS 20D, EOS 20Da, EOS 5D, EOS DIGITAL REBEL, EOS DIGITAL REBEL XT, EOS-1D, EOS-1D Mark II, EOS-1D Mark II N, EOS-1Ds, and EOS-1Ds Mark II."
Can anyone confirm this on a canon web site? Personally, I find this astounding and disturbing. This means if you have an older camera and you want canon software to be able to decode raw files, you need to keep older software. The problem with this is you then must keep an old computer to run it as it may not work on newer operating systems. If adobe does this, and other raw converter manufacturers do this in the future, we could find old cameras with no support for decoding raw files.
This is an argument for standardized raw files, like dng, or converting them to dng before it is no longer possible to convert them.
One alternative is to use open source software to decode old files, like dcraw. I also archive copies of dcraw source code so I know I can decode any camera file in the future.
Roger
http://www.imaging-resource.com/NEWS/1267213625.html
"Digital Photo Professional v3.8.1 for Mac and EOS Utility 2.8.1 on both Mac and PC platforms add support for the EOS Rebel T2i body, but also simultaneously ceases support for all digital SLRs prior to the EOS 30D. Newly unsupported cameras include the EOS D30, EOS D60, EOS 10D, EOS 20D, EOS 20Da, EOS 5D, EOS DIGITAL REBEL, EOS DIGITAL REBEL XT, EOS-1D, EOS-1D Mark II, EOS-1D Mark II N, EOS-1Ds, and EOS-1Ds Mark II."
Can anyone confirm this on a canon web site? Personally, I find this astounding and disturbing. This means if you have an older camera and you want canon software to be able to decode raw files, you need to keep older software. The problem with this is you then must keep an old computer to run it as it may not work on newer operating systems. If adobe does this, and other raw converter manufacturers do this in the future, we could find old cameras with no support for decoding raw files.
This is an argument for standardized raw files, like dng, or converting them to dng before it is no longer possible to convert them.
One alternative is to use open source software to decode old files, like dcraw. I also archive copies of dcraw source code so I know I can decode any camera file in the future.
Roger