[Kristoff]

Finally got an excuse to dust off my Minolta Maxxum lens collection and picked up a Konica Minolta 7D. This thing's RAW format is MRW. iPhoto doesn't seem to like it. Is there a way to get iPhoto to recognize them? It's odd that they say it supports RAW from DiMAGE A2, but wont work with RAW from Maxxum 7D. Or, I guess I should say that it's odd that manufacturers haven't standardized the RAW format--at least within their own company!

Any tips or ideas, or am I stuck using the supplied software? Anyone know if Photoshop supports MRW?

[art_director]

Can't speak to the Minolta RAW files -- I'm a Nikon D70 guy myself. Photoshop will open my RAW files without issue.

You hit the nail on the head -- camera manufacturers need to be in lock step. I've heard many a shooter complain about the RAW format for most every pro-line camera company.

Best of luck.

[budster101]

http://www.softwarepatch.com/graphic...oshop-raw.html

Is this what you are searching for?

or this may help if the first link doesn't... (Forum just for MRW format)

http://www.dalibor.cz/support/

Just read that there are issues with the RAW format and iPhoto, why do you shoot in RAW?
I know many professional photographers that shoot in jpeg and tiff...

What is you specific need here?

Try looking at these to help you as interim help:

http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/mo...;mode=feedback

http://www.versiontracker.com/php/se...;action=search

(I think this is a duplicate from above but from versiontracker this time)

Hope this helps.

[art_director]

I just completed work on a job shot on digital. Despite our requests the photographer shot in jpeg and converted the files to tiffs rather than giving us the RAW files. It was an unfortunate decision on his part and one that will keep me from hiring him again.

[th3ph17]

credentials for the opinion i'm about to give:
i'm a photo retoucher/color corrector/photoshop ninja at a magazine publishing company. I also do a bit of photography--not professional but enough to have a magazine cover that will see 50k copies. http://flickr.com/photos/th3ph17/25539407/

mostly i-40 hours a week--fix pictures other people have taken. Jpegs are fine if you send me one that is 2-3 times of the final size I need. Tifs are great, but the problem is that many times the photographer or someone else has tried to "fix" the picture. Then I have to spend time fixing the bad fix. With a RAW file I have complete control over the final picture. I can adjust the colors properly for our CMYK output profile. I can make my own fixes rather than fixing other peoples mistakes. There is no shitty jpeg compression artifacts messing up color, clarity, and blurring eyeballs into oblivian.

Adobe has been pushing its Digital Negative Format [dng?] as a camera independent RAW archival format. Shoot RAW, convert to digital negative and it is still a RAW file.

[ChrisF]

Originally Posted by Kristoff

Any tips or ideas, or am I stuck using the supplied software? Anyone know if Photoshop supports MRW?

Yes, Photoshop will support your camera. You can use CS if you've downloaded the Camera Raw plugin v. 2.4 or CS2 will work just fine. If you don't have either CS or CS2, you may want to pick up a copy of Photoshop Elements 3 or you can use the Adobe DNG converter which will convert your camera's RAW files to Adobe's DNG format which is, at least theoretically, standardized.
The RAW format won't ever be standardized because it's essentially the actual data coming off the chip.

[Kristoff]

Thanks for all the replies.

And budster101, I shoot in JPEG+RAW which gives me a JPEG for immediate use, but also gives me the RAW CCD data so I can manipulate the image if I need to.