14 Apr
2011
14 Apr
'11
12:44 p.m.
Tony Duell wrote:
If that 'raw' format is documented, then
presumably it's possible to
write a lossless converter from that to a format that gimp can handle. If
the rw format is not docuemtned, then that would be a very good reason
for me not to even consider that camera.
It is in general not possible to write a lossless format converter from
a camera "raw" format to any conventional image format. In raw formats,
the color primaries are not at coincident spatial locations as they are
in conventional image formats such as JPEG.
The raw formats also tend not to be publicly documented, but people
reverse engineer them to add support to open-source software, e.g. dcraw.
Eric