40d opening RAW files

[rich-6]

I'm getting pretty annoyed lol, Ive shot a few images tonight for the first time in RAW on the 40d.

When i put my card into my computer they are cr2 files so i searched around google and downloaded two plugins for CS3, It will now let me open RAW files in Photoshop but it takes an age and you dont know what image it is until its opened as you have no preview.

To try and combat this i downloaded a seperate codec from canon which supposedly makes the windows picture/fax viewer allow you to preview raw files, guesss what it doesnt :dapprove:

I downloaded camera RAW 4.2 from Adobe, and the one from canon has a file name k8A52mux.

I clicked on the image on my memory card and used the dialogue box to locate the correct software on the internet and it took me to the canon software which i already found before

What do you other 40d users use to preview your RAW files?

 

[Feirny]

Irfanview opens them I believe.

 

[GaryS]

Can't you shoot a RAW and a JPG at the same time with Canons?

 

[Feirny]

Can't you shoot a RAW and a JPG at the same time with Canons?

Can with my 450D.

 

[f0xy]

yeah the 40d does that.

 

[rich-6]

Its more memory though

 

[Jungle_Jim]

what version of photoshop have you got? if you have cs3 extend edition then it comes with Adobe bridge which is a RAW file previewer, it also enables you to load and edit your RAW files in the same RAW camera editor as photoshop without using photoshop to run it, enabling you to use photoshop to do other tasks at the same time.

 

[///AMG]

Yep as said^^ I use bridge

 

[Andy.]

i use lightroom or canons zoombrowser most of the time.

 

[vibrio]

shoot raw + small jpeg that way you can see what you like then edit in photoshop. the slowness for opening the RAW is down to your computer being slow. download the latest RAW plug in 4.6 I think it is too

I'm getting pretty annoyed lol, Ive shot a few images tonight for the first time in RAW on the 40d.

When i put my card into my computer they are cr2 files so i searched around google and downloaded two plugins for CS3, It will now let me open RAW files in Photoshop but it takes an age and you dont know what image it is until its opened as you have no preview.

To try and combat this i downloaded a seperate codec from canon which supposedly makes the windows picture/fax viewer allow you to preview raw files, guesss what it doesnt :dapprove:

I downloaded camera RAW 4.2 from Adobe, and the one from canon has a file name k8A52mux.

I clicked on the image on my memory card and used the dialogue box to locate the correct software on the internet and it took me to the canon software which i already found before

What do you other 40d users use to preview your RAW files?

 

[rich-6]

Yup using cs3 extended and i tried to preview in bridge unsucessfully I resorted to Irfanview in the end which works a treat

 

[2thumbs]

Its more memory though

Buy a bigger/more cards.