Posted by
Jarek Sacha on
Apr 25, 2006; 3:52am
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/running-dcraw-plugin-tp3703013p3703016.html
Jon Harman wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just tried it out on raw data from my new Sony DCS-R1. It works!
> That is great, thanks for making this available.
> So the question is: where are you going with this? I don't know
> anything about dcraw and will start looking into it, but there are
> lots choices to be made when converting raw data, not to mention
> trying to reverse engineer the magic settings of the various
> manufacturers.
The intention of DCRaw Reader plugin is to simply provide a convenient
way of using the dcraw binary by Dave Coffin. Not planing to add any
camera specific functionality that is not in dcraw. Currently only the
most basic dcraw options are supported by DCRaw Reader plugin. Support
for more dcraw options may be added in the future.
There is also a pure Java project at
https://jrawio.dev.java.net/ that
helps reading raw images using javax.imageio. It works with with ImageJ,
to some extent, using the Image IO plugin bundle v.2
(
http://ij-plugins.sourceforge.net/plugins/imageio/). I was able to
read with jrawio and ImageJ raw image from Canon Rebel XT, but not from
Canon D60, did not try other formats. Note that Image IO plugin bundle
v.2 is in alpha stage and not release yet, you will need to build it
from CVS source.
Jarek
>
> I am new to the digital raw world, but it seems a real can of worms to
> me. Each manufacturer has its own proprietary raw format, and does
> not disclose the various white balance curves, contrast curves,
> sharpening algorithms, noise reduction algorithms, etc that they use.
> I see that there are a bunch of raw conversion programs out there with
> Adobe Camera Raw (a plugin to Photo$hop) in the lead. What a headache
> these poor guys have trying to keep abreast of all the new cameras.
>
> Sony gives away a program to read its raw files, but the program is
> slow and appears to be disliked by users. It seems stuck at version
> 1.0. Why Sony cares to create a proprietary format for its raws and
> then doesn't make the effort to create a good reader is a mystery to me.
>
> Jon
>