I’ve steered clear of RAW photography for some time. Maybe it’s the extra few steps required to get a finished product, or the very large file size, or just that “it’s not jpeg!”
I changed the quality mode on my 20D to RAW this afternoon and was shocked when it told me that I could only take 79 shots! *gulp*
I fired off a shot, of an old Honda parked in front of my car and as I was in a hurry, forgot to do any more.
Later on I went searching and found a number of sites:
- Raw Digital Photo Decoding in Linux – Dave Coffin’s dcraw seems to be the basic library that everyone else builds their GUI tools on. He went to the trouble of decoding the various RAW formats in existance.
- Nikon D70 under Linux – plenty to read here, including a section on noise removal and links to a few GIMP noise removal plugins I must try out!
- RawPhoto – the author says it’s beta quality code, but it works. I haven’t tried it yet however.
- UFRaw – you can install this in Debian with
apt-get install gimp-ufraw. I tried it. It works, now I have to read the user-manual to figure out what all those controls mean!
I’d post an example RAW photo but the only one I have is nothing to write home about so you’ll just have to wait in line like everyone else!