RAW question

**gwpriester** · 06 July 2009, 08:00 PM

I dunno John, I think you are on to something here.

Just print out about 20, sign and number each one, and sell them at the next art fair.

**jclements** · 06 July 2009, 08:05 PM

They'd probably sell well at the upcoming fair in Eugene, Oregon (hippy capital of the world ... think time-warp).

**jclements** · 06 July 2009, 08:14 PM

Steve,

Be on the lookout for an email from Rapidshare. It will have a download link and delete option.

John

**steve.ledger** · 06 July 2009, 08:19 PM

OK John, but you could have sent directly to my gmail address, file size isn't an issue, RS takes too long, first a 30 second wait and then they throttle the speed.

**jclements** · 06 July 2009, 08:25 PM

Yeh, but I'm at work and we've got a file limitation on attachments.

**steve.ledger** · 06 July 2009, 08:39 PM

John the exact same thing happens for me in X5.

IrfanView opens the embedded .jpg, not the RAW - which is why it is so fast when doing so.

Lightroom 1.4 can't open it either, likely an unsupported update to the K2000 firmware (LR 1.4 doesn't support my G10 RAW either)

I suggest you open in IrfanView, copy to clipboard and paste into Xtreme 5 (though I bet you already did that

Xtreme cannot properly handle/develop any RAW, it simply doesn't have the tools. As I've mentioned before somewhere, Xtreme's RAW support is just an 'enabler'..

**jclements** · 06 July 2009, 10:57 PM

Thanks for investigating.
John

**jclements** · 07 July 2009, 03:18 PM

FYI.

I did a bit of experimenting and converted .PEF to .DNG via Pentax Photo Browser 3.

Even though it is not shown in Xara5's dropdown list of the Import Dialog, the import filter will recognize DNG (Adobe's Digital Negative non-proprietary format for storing RAW data).

In the import dialog, choose "All Files" from the dropdown list.