PhotoLine can load raw images from digital cameras
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Many digital cameras can save a so-called RAW format. This format saves
the raw data that come “directly” from the sensor of the
camera. This format has some advantages and disadvantages compared to
other file formats. The main advantage is, that the images are
relatively small and there are no compression problems. You avoid
problems with the automatic color correction of the camera, too. The
disadvantage is that every camera has its own raw format. So you have
to search for an application, that can read the format of your camera.
If you have such a software, you will see, that you have to spend some
time to get a perfect image from your raw data.
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Why raw images?
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Some people claim that the quality of raw images is not better then JPEG images. We don't think
so. If you only spend time for a quick view on both kinds of images you
won't see a difference. But if you want to manipulate your images, raw
images are the better choice. One advantage is that raw images normally
have 12 bit of color information per channel. If you want to lighten
such an image you will get a far better result then lightening an image
with only 8 bit.
Beside this, you can get problems if you have to work on images that
where compressed in JPEG format because of the JPEG artefacts. If you
got a noisy image from your camera, the JPEG version of the image will
be so artefacted that it will be much work to remove that noise.
Raw image with 800% zoom
The same image with 800% zoom but JPEG compressed (relativly high quality - 70%)
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Loading of raw images with "File/Import/Digital Camera Raw Data"
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Here you can load your image into a dialog. Then use
the functions in the dialog to get a perfect image.
You can setup to get an image with 16 Bit per color channel. There is
an automatic histogram and a gamma correction und a curves correction to get an
optimal result.
If you have a color profile, you can setup it here to append it to your
photos.
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Loading of raw images with "File/Open"
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You can open your raw photos using "File/Open" in PhotoLine. To get
a better quality this way you can setup the loading at "Edit/Options/File/RAW".
After you loaded the photo you can use all tools in PhotoLine to get
the best result.
PhotoLine uses a library to load digital camera raw images. This
library lists plenty of cameras that are supported. Of course we can't test all this
cameras. But we will show the list here to give you a chance to check your own camera.
- Adobe Digital Negative (DNG)
- Apple QuickTake 100
- Apple QuickTake 150
- AVT F-080C
- AVT F-145C
- AVT F-201C
- AVT F-510C
- AVT F-810C
- Canon PowerShot 600
- Canon PowerShot A5
- Canon PowerShot A5 Zoom
- Canon PowerShot A50
- Canon PowerShot A610 (CHDK hack)
- Canon PowerShot A620 (CHDK hack)
- Canon PowerShot A630 (CHDK hack)
- Canon PowerShot A640 (CHDK hack)
- Canon PowerShot A710 IS (CHDK hack)
- Canon PowerShot Pro70
- Canon PowerShot Pro90 IS
- Canon PowerShot G1
- Canon PowerShot G2
- Canon PowerShot G3
- Canon PowerShot G5
- Canon PowerShot G6
- Canon PowerShot G7 (CHDK hack)
- Canon PowerShot G9
- Canon PowerShot S2 IS (CHDK hack)
- Canon PowerShot S3 IS (CHDK hack)
- Canon PowerShot S30
- Canon PowerShot S40
- Canon PowerShot S45
- Canon PowerShot S50
- Canon PowerShot S60
- Canon PowerShot S70
- Canon PowerShot Pro1
- Canon EOS D30
- Canon EOS D60
- Canon EOS 5D
- Canon EOS 10D
- Canon EOS 20D
- Canon EOS 30D
- Canon EOS 40D
- Canon EOS 300D / Digital Rebel / Kiss Digital
- Canon EOS 350D / Digital Rebel XT / Kiss Digital N
- Canon EOS 400D / Digital Rebel XTi / Kiss Digital X
- Canon EOS D2000C
- Canon EOS-1D
- Canon EOS-1DS
- Canon EOS-1D Mark II
- Canon EOS-1D Mark III
- Canon EOS-1D Mark II N
- Canon EOS-1Ds Mark II
- Canon EOS-1Ds Mark III
- Casio QV-2000UX
- Casio QV-3000EX
- Casio QV-3500EX
- Casio QV-4000
- Casio QV-5700
- Casio QV-R41
- Casio QV-R51
- Casio QV-R61
- Casio EX-S100
- Casio EX-Z4
- Casio EX-Z50
- Casio EX-Z55
- Casio Exlim Pro 505
- Casio Exlim Pro 600
- Casio Exlim Pro 700
- Contax N Digital
- Creative PC-CAM 600
- Epson R-D1
- Foculus 531C
- Fuji FinePix E550
- Fuji FinePix E900
- Fuji FinePix F700
- Fuji FinePix F710
- Fuji FinePix F800
- Fuji FinePix F810
- Fuji FinePix S2Pro
- Fuji FinePix S3Pro
- Fuji FinePix S5Pro
- Fuji FinePix S20Pro
- Fuji FinePix S5000
- Fuji FinePix S5100/S5500
- Fuji FinePix S5200/S5600
- Fuji FinePix S6000fd
- Fuji FinePix S7000
- Fuji FinePix S9000/S9500
- Fuji FinePix S9100/S9600
- Hasselblad CFV
- Hasselblad H3D
- Imacon Ixpress 16-megapixel
- Imacon Ixpress 22-megapixel
- Imacon Ixpress 39-megapixel
- ISG 2020x1520
- Kodak DC20 (see Oliver Hartman's page)
- Kodak DC25 (see Jun-ichiro Itoh's page)
- Kodak DC40
- Kodak DC50
- Kodak DC120 (also try kdc2tiff)
- Kodak DCS200
- Kodak DCS315C
- Kodak DCS330C
- Kodak DCS420
- Kodak DCS460
- Kodak DCS460A
- Kodak DCS520C
- Kodak DCS560C
- Kodak DCS620C
- Kodak DCS620X
- Kodak DCS660C
- Kodak DCS660M
- Kodak DCS720X
- Kodak DCS760C
- Kodak DCS760M
- Kodak EOSDCS1
- Kodak EOSDCS3B
- Kodak NC2000F
- Kodak ProBack
- Kodak PB645C
- Kodak PB645H
- Kodak PB645M
- Kodak DCS Pro 14n
- Kodak DCS Pro 14nx
- Kodak DCS Pro SLR/c
- Kodak DCS Pro SLR/n
- Kodak C330
- Kodak P850
- Kodak P880
- Kodak KAI-0340
- Konica KD-400Z
- Konica KD-510Z
- Leaf Aptus 17
- Leaf Aptus 22
- Leaf Aptus 54S
- Leaf Aptus 65
- Leaf Aptus 75
- Leaf Aptus 75S
- Leaf Cantare
- Leaf CatchLight
- Leaf CMost
- Leaf DCB2
- Leaf Valeo 6
- Leaf Valeo 11
- Leaf Valeo 17
- Leaf Valeo 22
- Leaf Volare
- Leica Digilux 2
- Leica Digilux 3
- Leica D-LUX2
- Leica D-LUX3
- Leica V-LUX1
- Logitech Fotoman Pixtura
- Mamiya ZD
- Micron 2010
- Minolta RD175
- Minolta DiMAGE 5
- Minolta DiMAGE 7
- Minolta DiMAGE 7i
- Minolta DiMAGE 7Hi
- Minolta DiMAGE A1
- Minolta DiMAGE A2
- Minolta DiMAGE A200
- Minolta DiMAGE G400
- Minolta DiMAGE G500
- Minolta DiMAGE G530
- Minolta DiMAGE G600
- Minolta DiMAGE Z2
- Minolta Alpha/Dynax/Maxxum 5D
- Minolta Alpha/Dynax/Maxxum 7D
- Nikon D1
- Nikon D1H
- Nikon D1X
- Nikon D2H
- Nikon D2Hs
- Nikon D2X
- Nikon D2Xs
- Nikon D3
- Nikon D40
- Nikon D40X
- Nikon D50
- Nikon D70
- Nikon D70s
- Nikon D80
- Nikon D100
- Nikon D200
- Nikon D300
- Nikon E700 ("DIAG RAW" hack)
- Nikon E800 ("DIAG RAW" hack)
- Nikon E880 ("DIAG RAW" hack)
- Nikon E900 ("DIAG RAW" hack)
- Nikon E950 ("DIAG RAW" hack)
- Nikon E990 ("DIAG RAW" hack)
- Nikon E995 ("DIAG RAW" hack)
- Nikon E2100 ("DIAG RAW" hack)
- Nikon E2500 ("DIAG RAW" hack)
- Nikon E3200 ("DIAG RAW" hack)
- Nikon E3700 ("DIAG RAW" hack)
- Nikon E4300 ("DIAG RAW" hack)
- Nikon E4500 ("DIAG RAW" hack)
- Nikon E5000
- Nikon E5400
- Nikon E5700
- Nikon E8400
- Nikon E8700
- Nikon E8800
- Nikon Coolpix S6 ("DIAG RAW" hack)
- Olympus C3030Z
- Olympus C5050Z
- Olympus C5060WZ
- Olympus C7070WZ
- Olympus C70Z,C7000Z
- Olympus C740UZ
- Olympus C770UZ
- Olympus C8080WZ
- Olympus E-1
- Olympus E-3
- Olympus E-10
- Olympus E-20
- Olympus E-300
- Olympus E-330
- Olympus E-400
- Olympus E-410
- Olympus E-500
- Olympus E-510
- Olympus SP310
- Olympus SP320
- Olympus SP350
- Olympus SP500UZ
- Olympus SP510UZ
- Olympus SP550UZ
- Olympus SP560UZ
- Panasonic DMC-FZ8
- Panasonic DMC-FZ18
- Panasonic DMC-FZ30
- Panasonic DMC-FZ50
- Panasonic DMC-L1
- Panasonic DMC-L10
- Panasonic DMC-LC1
- Panasonic DMC-LX1
- Panasonic DMC-LX2
- Pentax *ist D
- Pentax *ist DL
- Pentax *ist DL2
- Pentax *ist DS
- Pentax *ist DS2
- Pentax K10D
- Pentax K100D
- Pentax K100D Super
- Pentax Optio S
- Pentax Optio S4
- Pentax Optio 33WR
- Pentax Optio 750Z
- Phase One LightPhase
- Phase One H 10
- Phase One H 20
- Phase One H 25
- Phase One P 20
- Phase One P 25
- Phase One P 30
- Phase One P 45
- Pixelink A782
- Polaroid x530
- Rollei d530flex
- RoverShot 3320af
- Samsung GX-1S
- Samsung GX-10
- Sarnoff 4096x5440
- Sigma SD9
- Sigma SD10
- Sigma SD14
- Sinar 3072x2048
- Sinar 4080x4080
- Sinar 4080x5440
- Sinar STI format
- SMaL Ultra-Pocket 3
- SMaL Ultra-Pocket 4
- SMaL Ultra-Pocket 5
- Sony DSC-F828
- Sony DSC-R1
- Sony DSC-V3
- Sony DSLR-A100
- Sony DSLR-A700
- Sony XCD-SX910CR
- STV680 VGA
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