How do I save RAW images from Canon?

[ollypenrice]

Hi all, I just bought myself a Canon 1000D but can't work out what's going on with the downloading of images. I gather I can save them as RAW, but how? Sorry to be so dim.

Olly.

[jgs001]

Olly, I don't know the menu on the 1000D, but I'm gonna assume it's similar in operation to the 450d. Firstly, the camera will not take RAW images in any of the scene modes, so from the green square anti clockwise, these modes will use jpg regardless of how you set the camera. You have to use P or clockwise from there for RAW. Second, in the first page of the menu, top item (Quality Settings), set to RAW or RAW+JPG. RAW+JPG is going to use space a whole lot faster though as it will save a RAW plus a HiQ JPG for each image.

[George]

I'm not familiar with the 1000D but I would imagine it had USB2 and or some sort of portable memory stick IE CF card or SD card?

Just copied this:

[/td]	INTERFACE
	Computer USB 2.0 Hi-Speed (Mini-
	Other Video output (PAL/ NTSC)
	MEMORY CARD
	SD card, SDHC card

From here http://www.photographyblog.com/reviews_canon_eos_1000d_5.php

[jgs001]

Oops... Sorry Olly, misread that. What software on the PC are you using ? Windows image importer thingy is unable to read the RAW files and therefore won't download them. You need to use something like ZoombrowserEX that shipped with the camera or if you have it Lightroom.

[Dave Smith]

or you could use Fastone Image viewer which reads all sorts of file types including Canon raw and also has some image manipulation facilities - and it's FREE

http://www.faststone.org/FSViewerDetail.htm

[Psychobilly]

Vista can display thumbnails of the raws once you have the neccessary stuff installed but i still prefer to save both raws and jpegs and use the jpegs to preview the frames. With the number of frames your likely to take when your imagign then theres no problem savign both ... a couple of 4GB cards will be ample.

[Naz]

Picasa reads the Nikon NEF RAW files, so I would imagine that it would read the Canon's. Also exports them as JPeg, not as good as a proper RAW reader. there was a plug in released by MS for the Picture Viewer for reading RAW files.

There are a couple free / shareware options to try here http://www.photo-freeware.net/image-editing.php

Archie

[ollypenrice]

Thanks all. Cracked it. The problem was that I was not teling it to take RAWS in the first place so no wonder it wouldn't download any! I thought it shot in RAW and then converted (or not) before being downloaded.

[jgs001]

Glad to hear it Olly