Canon Digital Photography and RAW

[Will Cohen]

Michael A. Peters wrote:
> Are there any open source projects working on the ability to import
> Canon's RAW formats to TIFF for use in Linux? IE a GIMP plugin or
> something?
 >
 > I know you can shoot a digital SLR in jpeg and mount the CF card - but
 > what about RAW? There are 3rd party (non Canon) utilities so I'm
 > guessing Canon makes some information available - but I don't seem to be
 > finding any OSS solutions.


I wrote an article for Red Hat's wide open magazine (Issue 1, 2004) 
talking about performance tuning. As an example I tuned a program that 
converts the RAW files from the Canon Digital Rebel into PPM format. The 
conversion program can be obtained from:

http://www.cybercom.net/~dcoffin/dcraw

Gimp (or other programs) could be used to convert the ppm file into tiff.

-Will