Getting raw photos from camera • Non-Gaming • Photography • Eurogamer.net

Neverness 16 Feb 2006 12:38:27 1,186 posts
Seen 1 year ago
Registered 19 years ago

I am sure I am missing somehting really obvious here but here it goes anyway.

Using a Canon 350D setup to take RAW + jpeg, how do you get the RAW files off the camera?

I thought it would be a case of bunging the usb cable in and copying them accross, but that just converted the RAW file into a jpeg (meaning I have ended up with duplicates of everything).

It was a borrowed camera so I dont have the manual.

Thanks in advance.

andy

ruttyboy 16 Feb 2006 12:44:40 7,950 posts
Seen 4 years ago
Registered 18 years ago

How are you copying the files across? Don't use any software, just drag and drop them in Windows Explorer.

Also are you absolutely sure they're being converted? Has the file name changed from [whatever the Canon RAW extension is] to .jpg?

Neverness 16 Feb 2006 12:51:52 1,186 posts
Seen 1 year ago
Registered 19 years ago

We did exactly that, copied them in explorer I mean.

The files take up a gig on the memory card/camera but when copied only 420meg.

Also when you look on the menory card with explorer half the files showup as .jpg, the the rest don't have an extension (should be .cs2 I beleive) or file size.

Aurifex. 16 Feb 2006 12:52:17 1,030 posts
Seen 9 years ago
Registered 19 years ago

I find using the card itself better than cable. You should be able to save the file into a folder. But you will need a program to open it like photoshop 7 or elements 3/4. Not done much with raw to be honest. Some prefer high jpegs. Search in here. "clicky"

Edited by Aurifex. at 12:54:39 16-02-2006

Neverness 16 Feb 2006 12:56:13 1,186 posts
Seen 1 year ago
Registered 19 years ago

I just selected the files, copyied then pasted on the PC. All I could think was that the camera was converting them to enable the transfer, but maybe not.

I have CS2 at work so I use that.

Deleted user 16 February 2006 19:39:27

You may already be doing this... but I tend to take the card out of my camera and plug it into a card reader. Then transfer it. It saves a lot of hassle. You can get a decent reader for peanuts these days.

MyWifeNowDave 16 Feb 2006 20:33:30 65 posts
Seen 11 years ago
Registered 16 years ago

Neverness wrote:
It was a borrowed camera so I dont have the manual.

Hmmm... "borrowed" eh?

Neverness 16 Feb 2006 21:59:22 1,186 posts
Seen 1 year ago
Registered 19 years ago

MyWifeNowDave wrote:

Neverness wrote:
It was a borrowed camera so I dont have the manual.

Hmmm... "borrowed" eh?

Yeah, 'borrowed' as in it is my brothers.

Not in the 'borrowed' CS2 for home sense... ;-)

Edited by Neverness at 21:59:44 16-02-2006

mr_steve100 16 Feb 2006 22:23:38 1,238 posts
Seen 6 years ago
Registered 16 years ago

There is some Canon software that is usually provided with the camera, so maybe if you can find it on the Canon website. I've got a Canon digital camera and with the software provided, there are options to pull out the RAW files from the camera (however, my camera doesn't 'do' RAW so I can't confirm what happens, but the option is there to be used).

Deleted user 17 February 2006 01:33:14

Post deleted

Deleted user 17 February 2006 01:37:59

I'm not being all elitist about Macs here, but my Mac, out of the box, didn't need the custom software Nikon provided with my D70 in order to recognise Nikons proprietary RAW file extensions and both download and display them on the 'desktop browser/explorer'.

What I'm saying is, while I don't know much about PCs, do you need the Canon software to make it work? If you're having trouble though, putting the software onto your machine would probably be the quickest solution.

You say the files you download are a fraction of the total size of the ones on the camera, and that some are mystery files that won't open. Is the total number of files downloaded equivalent to the ones on the camera? I wouldn't say that your RAW files are being compressed or altered in any way at all in the transfer. They should come over just fine, in one piece, and the only difficulty you might experience would be getting them to display. How big are the 'mystery' files?

Dirtbox 17 Feb 2006 03:12:55 92,599 posts
Seen 44 minutes ago
Registered 19 years ago

Post deleted

Sid-Nice 17 Feb 2006 03:19:44 15,848 posts
Seen 4 years ago
Registered 18 years ago

I could E-mail the manual to you; it is 7.83 meg.

Edited by Sid Nice at 03:20:12 17-02-2006

Carrybagma 17 Feb 2006 03:25:13 3,904 posts
Seen 13 years ago
Registered 17 years ago

Running XP? I think you need SP2 to download RAW images straight from the Camera.

Neverness 17 Feb 2006 09:24:25 1,186 posts
Seen 1 year ago
Registered 19 years ago

mr_steve100: I will get my brother to try that but I was under the impression that the Canon software was provided before photoshop had the RAW stuff included and is, therefore, supurfulous now.

Owen-B: When you look on the camera at the amount of space used on the card, it shows up as 986meg with no shots remaining. Looking on the card through explorer shows a set of photos with no extension or file size (I assume these are the RAW files) and the .jpg copies which are about 3meg each. When copied the unnamed files become .jpgs at the same size as their copies.

Actually now that I think about it it does sound like an XP problem. If XP can't recognise a picture format does it automaticly convert it to jpg? (ie compress it?)

I asked my brother to try opening them direct in the bridge or CS2 itself last night. Hopefully that will do the trick. Thanks for your help people.

Insidently the jpegs are high enough quality for me to work with which is lucky for me.

Neverness 17 Feb 2006 09:25:23 1,186 posts
Seen 1 year ago
Registered 19 years ago

Sid Nice wrote:
I could E-mail the manual to you; it is 7.83 meg.

Edited by Sid Nice at 03:20:12 17-02-2006

Hopefully my brother will have had a look for me but chears anyway.

MrCarrot 17 Feb 2006 16:16:46 3,524 posts
Seen 3 weeks ago
Registered 17 years ago

Neverness wrote:
Actually now that I think about it it does sound like an XP problem. If XP can't recognise a picture format does it automaticly convert it to jpg? (ie compress it?)

No.

MrCarrot 17 Feb 2006 16:36:10 3,524 posts
Seen 3 weeks ago
Registered 17 years ago

Nope, that should work in XP, too.

Neverness 17 Feb 2006 18:05:55 1,186 posts
Seen 1 year ago
Registered 19 years ago

otto wrote:
I'm still having problems understanding your problem.

Surely if you browse your card using either the software that Canon provide or Adobe Bridge you will view the RAWs on the card without having to import them to your computer?

Or have I been using a Mac too long...

I think that is why I can't figure it out. It shouldn't be a problem, browsing the card shows the RAW images with the jpg copies as it should. When I copy them onto the PC to work on them the RAWs become jpgs and the overall file size reduces massivly.

The only thing I didn't try at the time was browsing and saving with the bridge. Hopefully, when I get a chance to try it, that will work.

otto Moderator 28 May 2007 11:16:19 49,322 posts
Seen 4 days ago
Registered 20 years ago

I'm still having problems understanding your problem.

Surely if you browse your card using either the software that Canon provide or Adobe Bridge you will view the RAWs on the card without having to import them to your computer?

Or have I been using a Mac too long...