The live histogram, 35-210 zoom IS, may trump the excellent higher ISO of
the f30 or 31D, though clear increased latitude with RAW would be very nice.
I
don't think Moose saw much of that with the DNG conversion routine though
had not yet tried the Raw Therapee direct processing. There are other free
converters that can read the files below. The f30 (31D) is quite small though.
Mike
A. When you have a RAW file from your cam, you can
* convert it to the standardized DNG _digital negative_
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_negative) format using the
_DNGForPowerShot_
(http://tinyurl.com/2aq2s8) converter. The DNG files then can be processed
with
nearly every RAW converter on the market, including Adobe Lightroom and Apple
Aperture (read notes on the bottom).
* convert it to the DNG format using the _DNG4PS-2_
(http://dng4ps2.chat.ru/index_en.html) converter. It is newer and much more
optimized and
featurefull. Supports Windows and linux. Now in early stage of development.
* process the RAW files directly with appropriate converters. Right
now, this applies to converters which are based on David Coffin's DCRaw. Here
are four free examples:
* _UFRaw_ (http://ufraw.sourceforge.net/)
* _Raw Therapee_ (http://www.rawtherapee.com/)
* _Picasa 2.7 and above_ (http://picasa.google.com/)
* _Faststone Image Viewer displays the RAW files if you want to browse
them_ (http://faststone.org/) A very good image viewer/converter. It also
has most of the usual editing tools (brightness, constrast, gamma, hue,
rotations, cropping, etc.).
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