Canon RAW converter for Mac OS X

Has anyone found an Canon (or third party) solution for converting

RAW files in OS X? <b>Please</b> don't suggest using "native" mode

for OS 9.x or whatever. That is really really slow on my Ibook, and

I've got the RAM maxed out. In fact, I'd love to get os 9 completely

off my computer and just use X.

Hey Josh!<P>

I don't know if you have seen this but maybe <A HREF = http://

www.outbackphoto.com/booklets/booklets.html> this might be of some help.

</A><P>Good luck. Nikon just released their OS X compliant software last

week. Canon probably isn't more than six months away with theirs. <P>Has

anybody ever tried using Canon RAW files with Nikon software or vice versa?

Did anything happen? Good , bad or just nothing?

<p>iView MediaPro has some support for Canon's raw files. It looks like you can only preview them at a lower resolution (1440x960), but it would allow you to do more of the process in OS X.</p>

<p>The main site is <a href="http://iview-multimedia.com/">here</a>, and the Canon FAQ is <a href="http://iview-multimedia.com/support/canon.html">here</a>.</p>

<p>It does look like the only conversion solution is Canon's Raw Image Converter running in Classic for now.<p>

Besides the JCRW link above (which I just found out about on

this forum!) I am unaware of any OS X Canon Raw file converters

made by Canon or anyone else. For that matter, I don't think that

there are any OS 9 raw converters except for the Canon software.

Given the large number of folks who use Macs for digital

darkroom work this seems strange to me.

Heck, if someone could get me some details on the Canon RAW format, I'll write the stinking Photoshop plug-in. (That and some test images - before and after - to play with.) That is, unless they did something really freaky in the format.

-Chris Russ

http://reindeergraphics.com