A900 cRaw and Mac OS X

[tmorgan]

Hi, this is an FYI of interest only to Mac users with the Sony A900.

<br><br>

The recent Apple Camera Raw Update 2.3 adds support for A900 raw files to Mac OS X and

related Apple programs (Aperture, iPhoto, the OS itself).

*however* this update *does not* support the cRaw format.

<br><br>Something like this happened before, when Apple Camera Raw Update 2.2

broke support for A700 cRaw files. The circumvention in that case was to

down level to Apple Camera Raw Update 2.1 (see <a href="http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2355">TS2355</a>).

<br><br>

That circumvention won't work for the A900, since Apple Camera Raw Update 2.1 doesn't know about

the A900 model at all.

<br><br>

The only viable circumventions for the A900 cRaw format at this point in time are:

<ul>

<li>Don't use cRaw; use only the uncompressed Raw format, which works fine with Apple Camera Raw Update 2.3

<li>If you have some cRaw files from the A900 that you really need to process with the

Apple programs, process the cRaw files with the current Adobe DNG Converter (the one that

ships with Adobe Camera Raw 5.1) and use the resulting DNG files.

</ul>

<br><br>

&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp...Tom M

[francoisspenard]

Thanks Thomas for the notice, I presume Apple will fix the problem soon.Cheers.

[tmorgan]

<p>The problem with Sony cRAW files described in this posting has been corrected in the Apple Camera Raw Update 2.4<br>

...Tom M</p>