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Author Topic: Canon 5DIII and DNG  (Read 13766 times)
Wil
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« on: June 16, 2012, 09:37:32 PM »

I have been waiting for QU to support the Canon 5DIII and the current DNG specification.  It hasen't happened jet and I'll not pay the update fee until it supports both.  Why so long without support for these two.  Most other photo software have already supported both.

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« Reply #1 on: June 16, 2012, 09:45:23 PM »

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I have been waiting for QU to support the Canon 5DIII and the current DNG specification.  It hasen't happened jet and I'll not pay the update fee until it supports both.  Why so long without support for these two.  Most other photo software have already supported both.

Mike has mentioned many times that the initial conversions are done by David Coffin. As soon as Mr. Coffin releases the next group of covered raw formats, you will morst certainly have them in Qimage Ultimate.
Patience.... very soon!

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« Reply #2 on: June 16, 2012, 11:22:49 PM »

I have no reason to believe it will be very soon. 

The new DNG specification has been out for quite some time and has nothing to do with new cameras, but none of the Q versions support it.

Q is just slow to come to the game in many ways.

Wil

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« Reply #3 on: June 17, 2012, 12:01:40 PM »

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The many other raw conversion programs that use David Coffin's dcraw are also in the same boat. There is life beyond Adobe.  Shocked  Wink
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« Reply #4 on: June 17, 2012, 01:19:02 PM »

I have no reason to believe it will be very soon.  

The new DNG specification has been out for quite some time and has nothing to do with new cameras, but none of the Q versions support it.

Q is just slow to come to the game in many ways.

Wil



Nothing slow here: from the many inquiries we've made to David Coffin of dcraw, the only information we can get is that he's in the middle of a major rewrite.  So you could do the same thing we've been doing if it'll make you feel better: go to the dcraw website and ask David why he has not updated dcraw since December 26.  The best we can do is what we've already done: ping him about it.  He has not given us a date so my answer is what it has been for years.  We don't support raw formats: dcraw does.  When dcraw supports it, we'll support it within a month.  Until then, unfortunately you're stuck with one of the less capable tools (the one(s) you've already mentioned).  For most of the raw tools out there: we all wait for David.

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« Reply #5 on: July 09, 2012, 12:45:44 PM »

Canon's software does such a better job with the 5D Mark III. I wouldn't upgrade if that is your only reason. If you compare the results you will be disappointed.
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« Reply #6 on: July 09, 2012, 12:58:16 PM »

Just to be complete QU can now read and process .dng files with the new DNG specification.  It won't convert camera raw files to .dng, so if you want to use this file specification, you'll have to make the conversion in other software.

As far as updating for the 5DIII.  I don't use QU for any raw processing, just printing.  I update from time to time just to support Mike who has given us so much for so little for a very long time.

Wil
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