"v2010.210 is a biannual compatibility update: raw support for 27 new camera models (Studio) and updated video driver support (all editions)."

Mike, are you saying that you will only do a compatibility update once every 24 months? Really?

Biannual and biennial mean "every other year."

If you really mean every six months, then the proper word is "semi-annual" or "twice yearly."

Not picking on you at all; I just want to be sure I'm interpreting correctly. Thanks.

If you look it up you'll see that "biennial" is the proper term for once every two years.  Biannual, while sometimes used (properly) either way, technically means "twice per year" and the "twice per year" definition is always #1 in the definitions.  The term semi-annual may be technically better when used with "annual", but "semi" can mean "half", "two", or even "partial" so it sounds a little less specific to many people: a lot of people have come to think of "semi-annual" to mean "approximately annual".

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/biannual

Definition of BIANNUAL

1: occurring twice a year

In any case, I added (twice per year) so that no one has to look it up. 

Mike

That camera must be very new.
It is not supported yet even in Qimage Ultimate.

Usually, when there are a few cameras to add per incident, it will happen.

Fred

The A77 is supported in Ultimate.  The next time the retired versions will be updated is likely sometime after Windows 8 is released.  After that (likely sometime in 2013), we're going to stop software updates altogether on the retired versions.  Any updates to the retired versions (cameras for example) that might happen after that will happen via patches.  For example, you can patch your Qimage right now to read all the raw photos that Ultimate will read including the A77.  It won't read them at the higher quality achievable in Ultimate, but it does make the retired version compatible with all the latest cameras and that's all you would have gotten via an update anyway. 

Here's how: just install the latest Qimage Ultimate demo and copy the msdcraw.dll file from Ultimate's install folder and copy it over to your Qimage install folder.  Typically that only requires copying the msdcraw.dll file from "qimage-u" to "qimage" in your program files (x86) folder.

Mike

I installed the trial of Ultimate and copied the msdcraw file over. In both Qimage and Ultimate the colours are way off for raw files but they are both the same. Qimage shifted from a heavy green tint before to a yellow tint now.
When used with my Sony A100 the colours were perfect. It looks like I will not be moving to Ultimate.

Works fine here.  The WB looks a little warm so it looks like dcraw might still be working on the embedded white balance.  That happens sometimes.  I can only do what dcraw does and what you see is what dcraw currently offers.  That said, if you open the A77 files in raw refine and you check "auto WB" or you click with the WB dropper, color looks perfect and it works fine.  To get better color balance, you'll have to wait until dcraw updates with a better WB algorithm.

Mike