The even more wonderful part is that PhotoLine 32 is one of the only 2 or 3 programs that will read these new RAW files just as they are, even adjusting the white-balance automatically.
These cameras, with CHDK installed, create a corresponding JPG file at the same time as they create the RAW file. For example: I can (with this CHDK's options) set the file-name or extension so each time I take a photo I will get a "IMG_2036.JPG" and a "IMG_2036.CR2" file at the same time. The *.CR2 file being the equivalent RAW file for the JPG one. The JPG one is complete with all EXIF info and preview thumbnail embedded (at least I think the JPG has a thumb in it).
These 10-bit RAW files however do not contain any header information at all. No EXIF info, no thumbnail, nothing but 10-bit RAW data.
I'd like to keep my work-flow completely contained within PL32, so I'm wondering if:
1) There is a way to get PL32 to read the EXIF info from the corresponding JPG file that's created at the same time, and then patch it onto the 10-bit RAW data. Preferably with thumbnail included.
2) OR, is there a way to import all these images automatically from a folder, adding in the corresponding EXIF info and Thumb, and then re-saving them as a 16-bit file that's more universal? (And hopefully, a 16-bit format that's less than 30 megs each.
These 10-bit RAW files from my camera are only about 7.5 megs each so it makes them quite manageable.)3) OR ... can someone think of another way to get these RAW files to have EXIF info and Thumb included so they can be read by other organizers and browsers? (Which would also allow PL32 to see the preview-thumb and EXIF info on each one.)
If it can't do it now, could this be possible in a future version of PL32?? (pretty please?
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